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crat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses 16, 1831; attended the common schools and was graduated (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1937); was not a candidate for from Keene (N.H.) Academy; moved to in 1853 renomination, but was a successful candidate for Governor and settled near Beloit, Rock County; engaged in agricul- of Montana and served in that office from January 4, 1937, tural pursuits; elected alderman and was a member of the until January 6, 1941; resumed his ranching activities; died first city council of Beloit; unsuccessful Democratic candidate in Lewistown, Mont., May 23, 1955; interment in Lewistown for election in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; appointed City . postmaster of Beloit by President on August 2, 1886, and served until August 17, 1889, when a successor AYRES, Steven Beckwith, a Representative from New was appointed; appointed secretary of the State agricultural York; born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, October 27, 1861; moved society of Wisconsin in 1885 and served until 1899; elected with his parents to Elmira, N.Y., in 1866; attended the as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891- grammar school; moved to Penn Yan, N.Y., in 1873; at- March 3, 1893); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 tended the Penn Yan Academy and was graduated from to the Fifty-third Congress; retired from public life and ac- Syracuse (N.Y.) University, in 1882; engaged in the pub- tive business pursuits and resided in Beloit, Wis., until his lishing business at Penn Yan and was editor of the Yates death there on March 11, 1907; interment in the Protestant County Chronicle; delegate to the Republican State conven- Cemetery. tion in 1884; moved to City in 1893 and engaged in the advertising business; declined the Democratic nomina- BABBITT, Elijah, a Representative from ; tion as candidate for the New York State assembly in 1910; born in Providence, R.I., July 29, 1795; moved with his elected as an Independent Democrat to the Sixty-second parents to New York State in 1805; received an academic Congress (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful can- education; moved to Milton, Northumberland County, Pa., didate for reelection as an Independent Democrat in 1912 in 1816; studied law; was admitted to the bar in March to the Sixty-third Congress; author of several books and 1824 and commenced practice in Milton; moved to Erie, many historical articles; lecturer in the New York University Pa., in 1826 and continued the practice of law; served as Summer School in 1914; engaged in the cultivation of or- attorney for the borough and subsequently for the city of anges at Clearwater, Fla., in winter and in the real estate Erie; prosecuting attorney for Erie County in 1833; deputy business at Woodstock, N.Y., during the summer; died in attorney general for the State in 1834 and 1835; member , June 1, 1929; interment in the Clearwater of the State house of representatives in 1836 and 1837; Cemetery, Clearwater, Fla. served in the State senate 1843-1846; elected as a Repub- lican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses AYRES, William Augustus, a Representative from Kan- (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1863); was not a candidate for sas; born in Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Ill., April 19, reelection in 1862 to the Twenty-eighth Congress; resumed 1867; moved with his parents to Sedgwick County, Kans., the practice of his profession; died in Erie, Pa., January in 1881; attended the common schools and Garfield Univer- 9, 1887; interment in Erie Cemetery. sity (now Friends University), Wichita, Kans.; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in Wichita, BABCOCK, Alfred, a Representative from New York; Kans.; clerk of the Court of Appeals of 1897-1901; born in Hamilton, Madison County, N.Y., April 15, 1805; prosecuting attorney of Sedgwick County 1906-1910; elected attended the local schools and Gaines (N.Y.) Academy; stud- as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty- ied medicine; moved to Gaines, Orleans County, N.Y., where sixth Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1921); unsuccess- he practiced his profession; elected a member of the board ful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh of trustees of the village of Gaines at its first election on Congress; elected to the Sixty-eighth and to the five suc- May 28, 1839; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh ceeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); resumed the prac- his resignation effective August 22, 1934, having been ap- tice of medicine in Gaines, N.Y.; moved to in 1850 pointed a member of the Federal Trade Commission on June and settled in Galesburg, Knox County, where he continued 30, 1934, in which capacity he served until his death in the practice of his profession until his death on May 16, Washington, D.C., February 17, 1952; interment in Old Mis- 1871; interment in Hope Cemetery. sion Cemetery, Wichita, Kans. BABCOCK, Joseph Weeks (grandson of Joseph Weeks), AYRES, William Hanes, a Representative from ; a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Swanton, Franklin born in Eagle Rock, Botetourt County, Va., February 5, County, Vt., March 6, 1850; moved to Linn County, Iowa, 1916; moved with his parents to West and later with his parents, who settled near Mount Vernon in 1855; to Lorain County, Ohio; attended the Weller Township High attended the common schools of Mount Vernon and Cedar School; was graduated from Western Reserve University, Falls; moved to Necedah, Juneau County, Wis., in 1872 and Cleveland, Ohio, in 1936; salesman for heating equipment engaged in the lumber business; member of the Wisconsin in Akron, Ohio, 1936-1944; during the Second World War State assembly 1889-1893; chairman of the Republican Na- served as a private in the Army until dis- tional Congressional Committee in 1894 and 1902; delegate charged December 17, 1945; president of the Ayres Heating at large to the Republican National Convention at Chicago & Insulation Co., Akron, Ohio, since 1946; elected as a Re- in 1904; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and to publican to the Eighty-second and to the nine succeeding the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1971); unsuccessful 1907); chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Fifty- candidate for reelection in 1970 to the Ninety-second Con- fourth through Fifty-ninth Congresses); declined to be a can- gress; died on December 27, 2000, in Columbia, Md. didate for renomination in 1906; retired and resided in Washington, D.C., until his death there on April 27, 1909; remains were cremated and the ashes deposited in the B monument on the family plot in Rock Creek Cemetery. BABBITT, Clinton, a Representative from Wisconsin; BABCOCK, Leander, a Representative from New York; born in Westmoreland, Cheshire County, N.H., November born in Paris, Oneida County, N.Y., March 1, 1811; was 590 Biographical Directory

graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1830; N.J., 1905-1910; member of the State house of assembly studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1834; moved to in 1911; delegate to the Republican National Convention Oswego, N.Y., and commenced the practice of law; district at Chicago in 1920; elected as a Republican to the Sixty- attorney for Oswego County 1841-1843; mayor of Oswego fourth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915- in 1850 and 1851; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty- January 3, 1937); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); president 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress; engaged in the real- of the board of education in 1853 and 1855; died in Richfield estate and insurance business in Atlantic City, N.J., until Springs, N.Y., August 18, 1864; interment in Riverside Cem- his death there on September 5, 1956; interment in Mount etery, Oswego, N.Y. Sinai Cemetery, , Pa. BABCOCK, William, a Representative from New York; BACHMAN, Nathan Lynn, a Senator from ; born in Hinsdale, Westmoreland County, N.H., in 1785; born in Chattanooga, Tenn., August 2, 1878; attended the moved to Penn Yan, N.Y., in 1813 and engaged in mercantile public schools, Baylor Preparatory School for Boys, Chat- pursuits; upon the formation of Yates County was appointed tanooga, Tenn., Southwestern Presbyterian University, by the Governor as the first county treasurer; elected as Clarksville, Tenn., Central University, Danville, Ky., Wash- an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-second Congress ington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., and the Univer- (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); resumed mercantile pursuits sity of Chattanooga Law School, Chattanooga, Tenn.; grad- and also was engaged as a hotel keeper; died in Penn Yan, uated from the law department of the University of Virginia Yates County, N.Y., October 20, 1838; interment in City at Charlottesville in 1903, admitted to the bar in 1903, Hill Cemetery in Torrey Township, near Penn Yan. and began practice in Chattanooga, Tenn., in the same year; city attorney of Chattanooga 1906-1908; served as judge of BABKA, John Joseph, a Representative from Ohio; born the circuit court of Hamilton County, Tenn.1912-1918; in Cleveland, Ohio, March 16, 1884; attended the public served as associate justice of the Supreme Court of Ten- schools; was graduated from the Cleveland Law School in nessee from 1918 until his resignation in 1924; unsuccessful 1908; was admitted to the bar the same year and com- candidate for nomination for United States Senator in 1924; menced practice in Cleveland, Ohio; special counsel to the resumed the practice of law the same year; appointed on attorney general of Ohio in 1911 and 1912; assistant pros- February 28, 1933, and subsequently elected on November ecuting attorney of Cuyahoga County 1912-1919; elected as 6, 1934, as a Democrat to the to fill a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919- the vacancy caused by the resignation of Cordell Hull; re- March 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 elected in 1936 and served from February 28, 1933, until to the Sixty-seventh Congress; resumed the practice of law; his death in Washington, D.C., April 23, 1937; interment delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1920 in Forest Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tenn. and 1932; at the time of his death was acting as liquidating Bibliography: McKellar, Kenneth. ‘‘Nathan Lynn Bachman,’’ in Ten- attorney for the division of savings and loan associations nessee Senators as Seen by One of their Successors. Kingsport, Tenn.: of the department of commerce of Ohio; died at Cleveland, Southern Publishers, Inc., 1942, 613-621; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services Ohio, March 22, 1937; interment in Calvary Cemetery. for Nathan Bachman. 75th Cong., 1st sess., 1937. Washington, D.C.: Gov- ernment Printing Office, 1938. BACA, Joe, a Representative from California; born in Belen, Valencia County, N.M., January 23, 1947; graduated BACHMAN, Reuben Knecht, a Representative from from California State University, Los Angeles, Calif., 1971; Pennsylvania; born in Williams Township, Northampton , 1966-1968; member of the California County, Pa., August 6, 1834; attended the common schools; state assembly, 1992-1999; member of the California state taught school for several years; entered the mercantile and senate, 1999; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred milling business in Durham, Bucks County, Pa.; elected as Sixth Congress by special election to fill the vacancy caused a Democrat to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879- by the death of United States Representative George E. March 3, 1881); was not a candidate for renomination in Brown, and reelected to the two succeeding Congresses (No- 1880; delegate to the Democratic National Convention at vember 16, 1999-present). Chicago in 1884; engaged in the lumber business and the manufacture of builders’ millwork at Riegelsville, Pa., and BACCHUS, James, a Representative from Florida; born Phillipsburg, N.J.; died in Easton, Pa., September 19, 1911; in Nashville, Tenn., June 21, 1949; graduated from Lyman interment in Durham Cemetery, near Durham, Bucks Coun- High School, Longwood, Fla., 1967; B.A., Vanderbilt Univer- ty, Pa. sity, Nashville, Tenn., 1971; M.A., , New Haven, Conn., 1973; J.D., Florida State University, Talla- BACHMANN, Carl George, a Representative from West hassee, Fla., 1978; lawyer, private practice; United States Virginia; born in Wheeling, Ohio County, W.Va., May 14, Army, 1971-1977; staff to Governor Reubin Askew of Flor- 1890; attended the public schools; was graduated from ida, 1974-1978; special assistant to the United States Trade Linsly Institute, Wheeling, W.Va., in 1908; attended Wash- Representative, 1979-1981; general counsel, Florida state ington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa., for two years; Comprehensive Plan Committee, 1986- 1987; elected as a was graduated from University at Morgan- Democrat to the One Hundred Second and One Hundred town in 1913 and from its law department in 1915; was Third Congresses (January 3, 1991- January 3, 1995); not admitted to the bar in 1915 and commenced practice in a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fourth Con- Wheeling; appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Ohio gress in 1994; judge, appellate court, World Trade Organiza- County in January 1917; was subsequently elected pros- tion, 1995-2003; is a resident of Winter Park, Fla. ecuting attorney in January 1921 and served until January 1925; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to BACHARACH, Isaac, a Representative from ; the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, born in Philadelphia, Pa., January 5, 1870; moved to New 1933); minority whip (Seventy-second Congress); unsuccess- Jersey in 1881 with his parents, who settled in Atlantic ful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third City; attended the public schools; entered the real-estate Congress and for election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Con- business and also became interested in the lumber business gress; resumed the practice of law in Wheeling, W.Va., and in banking; member of the council of Atlantic City, served on the city council of Wheeling, W.Va., 1939-1941; Biographies 591

member of the West Virginia State liquor control commis- Utica, Oneida County, N.Y., in 1816; appointed associate sion 1941-1944; executive director of civilian defense for justice of the court of common pleas in 1818; member of State of West Virginia, 1942-1944; elected mayor of Wheel- the State assembly in 1819; delegate to the State constitu- ing in 1947 for the term ending June 30, 1951; engaged tional convention in 1821; unsuccessful candidate for election in banking and the practice of law; was a resident of Wheel- in 1824 to the Nineteenth Congress; at time of his death ing, W.Va., where he died January 22, 1980; interment he was the oldest surviving Member of Congress and the Greenwood Cemetery, Wheeling W.Va. last representative of the administration of President Madi- son; died in Utica, N.Y., October 18, 1870; interment in BACHUS, Spencer T., III, a Representative from Ala- Forest Hill Cemetery. bama; born in Birmingham, Ala., December 28, 1947; B.A., Bibliography: Barlow, William, and David O. Powell. ‘‘Congressman Auburn University, 1969; J.D., University of School of and the Coming of the .’’ His- of Law, 1972; National Guard, 1969-1971; lawyer, private torical Journal of Western Massachusetts 6 (Spring 1978): 28-41. practice; member of the Alabama state senate, 1983-1984; member of the Alabama state house of representatives, BACON, Henry, a Representative from New York; born 1984-1987; member, Alabama board of education, 1987-1991; in , N.Y., March 14, 1846; attended the Mount chairman, Alabama Republican executive committee, 1991- Pleasant Academy in Sing Sing, the Episcopal Academy in 1992; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Third Cheshire, Conn., and was graduated from Union College and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1993- in 1865; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1866 and present). commenced practice in Goshen, N.Y.; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by BACON, Augustus Octavius (cousin of William S. How- the death of Lewis Beach; reelected to the Fiftieth Congress ard), a Senator from Georgia; born in Bryan County, Ga., and served from December 6, 1886, until March 3, 1889; October 20, 1839; attended the common schools in Liberty chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Fiftieth Congress); and Troup Counties; graduated from the literary department unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty- of the University of Georgia at Athens in 1859 and from first Congress; elected to the Fifty-second Congress (March its law department in 1860; admitted to the bar in 1860 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); chairman, Committee on Banking and commenced practice in Atlanta, Ga.; entered the Confed- and Currency (Fifty-second Congress); unsuccessful can- erate Army at the beginning of the Civil War and served didate for renomination in 1892; resumed the practice of during the campaigns of 1861 and 1862 as adjutant of the law in Goshen; delegate to the Democratic National Conven- Ninth Georgia Regiment in the Army of Northern Virginia; tion at Chicago in 1892; corporation counsel of Goshen 1909- subsequently commissioned in the Provisional Army 1915; died in Goshen, N.Y., on March 25, 1915; interment of the Confederacy and assigned to general staff duty; at in Slate Hill Cemetery. the close of the war resumed the practice of law in Macon, Ga.; member of the State house of representatives 1871- BACON, John (father of Ezekiel Bacon and grandfather 1886, serving as speaker pro tempore for two terms and of William Johnson Bacon), a Representative from Massa- as speaker eight years; president of the Democratic State chusetts; born in Canterbury, Conn., April 5, 1738; was convention in 1880; elected as a Democrat to the United graduated from Princeton College in 1765; studied theology; States Senate in 1894; reelected in 1900, 1906 and again had charge of the Old South Church, , from Sep- in 1913, and served from March 4, 1895, until his death; tember 25, 1771, until dismissed February 8, 1775, owing served as President pro tempore during the Sixty-second to differences of opinion; located in Stockbridge; studied law; Congress; chairman, Committee on Engrossed Bills (Sixtieth was admitted to the bar and practiced; served on the com- and Sixty-first Congresses), Committee on Private Land mittee of correspondence, inspection, and safety in 1777; Claims (Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses), Committee member of the State constitutional convention in 1779 and on Foreign Relations (Sixty-third Congress); died in Wash- 1780; member of the State house of representatives 1780, ington, D.C., February 14, 1914; funeral services were held 1783, 1784, 1786, 1789-1791, and in 1793; member of the in the Senate Chamber; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery, State senate 1781, 1782, 1794-1796, 1798, and 1803-1806, Macon, Ga. serving as president in 1806; elected as a Republican to Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Steelman, Lola Carr. the Seventh Congress (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1803); chair- ‘‘The Public Career of Augustus Bacon.’’ Ph.D. dissertation, University of man, Committee on Elections (Seventh Congress); presiding , 1950; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 63rd Cong., 3rd judge of the court of common pleas; chief justice of the sess., 1914-1915. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1915. State supreme court in 1809; died in Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Mass., October 25, 1820; interment in Stockbridge BACON, Ezekiel (son of John Bacon and father of Wil- Cemetery. liam Johnson Bacon), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., September 1, 1776; received a liberal BACON, Mark Reeves, a Representative from ; schooling and was graduated from in 1794; born in Phillipstown, White County, Ill., February 29, 1852; attended the and afterwards studied attended the public schools of his native city; taught school with in Beverly; was admitted to the bar at Bolivar (Mo.) Academy in 1871; studied law; was admitted in 1800 and commenced practice in Stockbridge, Mass.; to the bar on July 4, 1876, and commenced practice in member of the State house of representatives in 1805 and Fairfield, Wayne County, Ill.; city attorney of Fairfield, Ill.; 1806; elected as a Republican to the Tenth Congress to delegate to several State conventions; moved to Orlando, fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Barnabas Fla., in 1882 and to Jacksonville, Fla., in 1886 and engaged Bidwell; reelected to the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses in the abstract business; moved to Wyandotte, Wayne Coun- and served from September 16, 1807, to March 3, 1813; ty, Mich., 1895 and became associated with the Michigan chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Twelfth Con- Alkali Co.; presented credentials as a Republican Member- gress); chief justice of the court of common pleas for the elect to the Sixty-fifth Congress, but was succeeded by Sam- western district of Massachusetts 1811-1814; First Comp- uel W. Beakes, who contested his election(March 4, 1917- troller of the United States Treasury from February 11, December 13, 1917); was not a candidate for renomination 1814, to February 28, 1815, when he resigned; moved to in 1918; retired in 1918 and resided in Wyandotte, Mich.; 592 Biographical Directory

died at his winter home in Pasadena, Calif., August 20, N.C.; appointed Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of 1941; interment in San Gabriel Cemetery, San Gabriel, President William H. Harrison, March 5, 1841, reappointed Calif. by President John Tyler, and served until September 11, 1841, when he resigned to resume the practice of law; elect- BACON, Robert Low, a Representative from New York; ed as a Whig to the United States Senate in 1846 to fill born in Jamaica Plains, Boston, Mass., July 23, 1884; at- the vacancy caused by the resignation of William H. Hay- tended the public schools; was graduated from Harvard Uni- wood; reelected in 1849 and served from November 25, 1846, versity in 1907 and from its law school in 1910; was an to March 3, 1855; not a candidate for reelection; chairman, employee of the United States Treasury Department in 1910 Committee on Enrolled Bills (Thirty-first Congress); nomi- and 1911; moved to Old Westbury, N.Y., in 1911 and en- nated by President as an Associate Justice gaged in the banking business in New York City 1911-1922; of the Supreme Court in 1853, but was not confirmed by delegate to several State conventions; delegate to the Repub- the Senate; returned to Raleigh and resumed the practice lican National Convention at Chicago in 1920; attended the of law; member of the State convention in 1861; died in business men’s training camp at Plattsburg in 1915; served Raleigh, N.C., May 11, 1866; interment in Oakwood Ceme- on the border with the New York National Guard tery. in 1916; during the First World War served with the United Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- States military forces from April 24, 1917, to January 2, ography; , Lawrence F. ‘‘George Edmund Badger in the United 1919, attaining the rank of major; awarded the Distin- States Senate, 1846-1849.’’ North Carolina Historical Review 15 (January guished Service Medal; commissioned in the United States 1938), 1-22; London, Lawrence F. ‘‘George Edmund Badger, His Last Years Officers’ Reserve Corps with the rank of lieutenant in the United States Senate, 1851-1855.’’ North Carolina Historical Review in 1919; promoted to colonel in January 1923 and served 15 (July 1938): 231-50. until his death; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth BADGER, Luther, a Representative from New York; and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from born in Partridgefield (now Peru), Mass., April 10, 1785; March 4, 1923, until his death at Lake Success, , moved with his father to New York in 1786; attended Ham- N.Y., en route from a visit to New York City, September ilton College in 1807; studied law; was admitted to the bar 12, 1938; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arling- in 1812 and commenced practice in Jamesville, Onondaga ton, Va. County, N.Y.; judge advocate of the Twenty-seventh Brigade, New York , 1819-1827; elected to the Nineteenth Con- BACON, William Johnson (son of Ezekiel Bacon and gress (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1827); resumed the practice grandson of John Bacon), a Representative from New York; of his profession; moved to Broome County in 1832; exam- born in Williamstown, Mass., February 18, 1803; moved with iner in chancery 1833-1847; appointed commissioner of his parents to Utica, N.Y., in 1815; was graduated from United States loans in 1840, and served until 1843; elected Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1822; studied law and district attorney of Broome County and served from July was graduated from the Litchfield Law School in 1824; was 5, 1847, until his resignation in November 1849; resumed admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice the practice of law in Jordan, Onondaga County, N.Y., where in Utica, Oneida County, N.Y.; appointed city attorney in he died in 1869; interment in Jordan Cemetery. 1837; member of the State assembly in 1850; elected trustee of Hamilton College in 1851; elected judge of the State su- BADHAM, Robert Edward, a Representative from Cali- preme court of the fifth district in 1854 and served until fornia; born in Los Angeles, Calif., June 9, 1929; attended 1870; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress public schools, Beverly Hills, Calif.; graduated, Beverly Hills (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); was not a candidate for High School, 1947; attended Occidental College, Eagle Rock, renomination in 1878; resumed the practice of law; died Calif., 1947-1948; B.A., Stanford (Calif.) University, 1951; in Utica, N.Y., July 3, 1889; interment in Forest Hill Ceme- business executive; served on active duty with the United tery. States Naval Reserve, 1951-1954; director, officer, Hoffman Hardware Co., Los Angeles, 1952-1969; served in California BADGER, De Witt Clinton, a Representative from Ohio; assembly, 1963-1976; delegate to California State Repub- born near London, Madison County, Ohio, August 7, 1858; lican conventions, 1962-1976; delegate to Republican Na- attended the country schools in Madison County and Mount tional Conventions, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1980 and 1984; elected Union College, Alliance, Ohio; taught school from 1875 to as a Republican to the Ninety-fifth and to the five suc- 1880; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1881 and ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1977-January 3, 1989); was commenced practice in London, Ohio; prosecuting attorney not a candidate for renomination in 1988 to the One Hun- of Madison County 1882-1885; moved to Columbus, Ohio, dred First Congress; is a resident of Newport Beach, Calif. and was elected judge of the court of common pleas in 1893; reelected in 1897 and served until 1903, when he resigned, BADILLO, Herman, a Representative from New York; having been elected to Congress; elected as a Democrat to born in Caguas, P.R., August 21, 1929; attended the New the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); York City public schools; B.B.A., City College of New York, declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1904; re- 1951; LL.B., Brooklyn Law School, 1954; admitted to the sumed the practice of law in Columbus, Ohio; mayor of New York bar in 1955 and commenced practice in New Columbus 1906-1908; died in Columbus, Ohio, May 20, 1926; York City; certified public accountant, 1956; commissioner, interment in Green Lawn Cemetery. New York City Department of Relocation, 1962-1965; elected Bronx, N.Y., borough president, 1965-1969; delegate to New BADGER, George Edmund, a Senator from North Caro- York State Constitutional convention, 1967; delegate to lina; born in New Bern, N.C., April 17, 1795; instructed Democratic National Convention, 1968; unsuccessful can- by private teachers and attended preparatory school at New didate for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York Bern; attended Yale College in 1810 and 1811; studied law; City, 1969, 1973, and 1977; elected as a Democrat to the admitted to the bar in 1814 and commenced practice in Ninety-second and to the three succeeding Congresses; New Bern; member of the house of commons of North Caro- served from January 3, 1971, until his resignation December lina in 1816; elected judge of the superior court in 1820 31, 1977, to become a deputy mayor of New York City for and served until 1825, when he resigned; moved to Raleigh, the term commencing in January 1978 and served in that Biographies 593

capacity until his resignation in September 1979; resumed third Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses (Janu- the practice of law in New York City; chairman, Board of ary 3, 1973-January 3, 1983); was not a candidate for reelec- Directors of the State of New York Mortgage Agency, Feb- tion to the Ninety-eighth Congress in 1982, but was an ruary 1984-May 1986; unsuccessful candidate for New York unsuccessful nominee for Governor of Florida; governmental State comptroller in 1986; candidate for the Democratic affairs consultant; is a resident of Palm Beach, Fla. nomination for mayor of New York City in 1993 until he withdrew from the race; unsuccessful Republican-Liberal Fu- BAGBY, Arthur Pendleton, a Senator from Alabama; sion candidate for New York City comptroller in 1993; is born in Louise County, Va., in 1794; studied law; admitted a resident of the Bronx, N.Y. to the bar in 1819 and commenced practice in Claiborne, Ala.; member of the State house of representatives in 1821, BAER, George, Jr., a Representative from Maryland; 1822, 1824, and 1834-1836, serving as speaker in 1822 and born in Frederick, Md., in 1763; attended the common 1836; served in the State senate in 1825; Governor of Ala- schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits; member of the State bama 1837-1841; elected as a Democrat to the United States house of delegates in 1794; elected as a Federalist to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Clem- Fifth and Sixth Congresses (March 4, 1797-March 3, 1801); ent C. Clay and served from November 24, 1841, until June again a member of the State house of delegates, in 1808 16, 1848, when he resigned to become Minister to Russia; and 1809; judge of the orphans’ court of Frederick County chairman, Committee on Territories (Twenty-eighth and in 1813; elected as a Federalist to the Fourteenth Congress Twenty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Claims (Twenty- (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); resumed his former mer- ninth Congress), Committee on Indian Affairs (Twenty-ninth cantile pursuits; mayor of Frederick in 1820; died in Fred- Congress); United States Minister to Russia 1848-1849; erick, Frederick County, Md., April 3, 1834; interment in member of the commission to codify the State laws of Ala- Mount Olivet Cemetery. bama in 1852; moved to Mobile, Ala., in 1856, where he died on September 21, 1858; interment in Magnolia Ceme- BAER, John Miller, a Representative from North Da- tery, Mobile, Ala. kota; born at Black Creek, Outagamie County, Wis., March Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Martin, John M. ‘‘The 29, 1886; attended the public schools; was graduated from Senatorial Career of Arthur Pendleton Bagby.’’ Alabama Historical Quar- Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., in 1909; moved to terly 42 (Fall/Winter 1980): 124-56. Beach, Golden Valley County, N.Dak., in 1909; engaged as a civil engineer and in agricultural pursuits 1909-1915; also BAGBY, John Courts, a Representative from Illinois; furnished cartoons and articles to newspapers 1909-1917; born in Glasgow, Ky., January 24, 1819; attended the public postmaster of Beach, N.Dak., 1909-1915; elected as a Repub- schools; was graduated as a civil engineer from Bacon Col- lican to the Sixty-fifth Congress by special election, to fill lege, Harrodsburg, Ky., in June 1840; studied law; was ad- the vacancy caused by the death of United States Represent- mitted to the bar in March 1845 and commenced practice ative Henry T. Helgesen, and reelected to the succeeding in Rushville, Schuyler County, Ill., in April 1846; elected Congress (July 20, 1917-March 3, 1921); chairman, Com- as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875- mittee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for renomination in (Sixty-sixth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection 1876; resumed the practice of his profession in Rushville, to the Sixty-seventh Congress in 1920; resumed activities Ill.; judge of Schuyler County 1882-1885; judge of the sixth as a cartoonist and journalist; died in Washington, D.C., judicial circuit court of Illinois 1885-1891; resumed the prac- February 18, 1970; interment in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, tice of law; died in Rushville, Ill., April 4, 1896; interment Silver Spring, Md. in Rushville Cemetery. Bibliography: Reid, Bill G. ‘‘John Miller Baer: Nonpartisan League Cartoonist and Congressman.’’ North Dakota History 44 (Winter 1977): 4- BAGLEY, George Augustus, a Representative from New 13. York; born in Watertown, Jefferson County, N.Y., July 22, 1826; received an academic training; studied law; was admit- BAESLER, Henry Scott (Scotty), a Representative from ted to the New York bar in 1847 and commenced practice ; born in Lexington, Ky., July 9, 1941; B.S., Univer- in Watertown, N.Y.; retired from the practice of his profes- sity of Kentucky, 1963; J.D., University of Kentucky School sion in 1853 to engage in the manufacture of iron; president of Law, 1966; admitted to the bar in 1966 and commenced of the village of Watertown in 1866; supervisor of the town the practice of law; administrator, Fayette County legal aid, 1865-1868; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth and 1967-1973; vice mayor of Fayette County, 1974-1977; Fay- Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); re- ette County district judge, 1979-1981; unsuccessful can- sumed the manufacture of iron; died in Watertown, N.Y., didate in 1991 for nomination for ; May 12, 1915; interment in Brookside Cemetery. mayor of Lexington, 1982-1993; chairman, Kentucky eco- nomic planning commission, 1987; elected as a Democrat BAGLEY, John Holroyd, Jr., a Representative from to the One Hundred Third and to the two succeeding Con- New York; born in Hudson, Columbia County, N.Y., Novem- gresses (January 3, 1993-January 3, 1999); was not a can- ber 26, 1832; attended the common schools; went to Cali- didate for reelection to the One Hundred Sixth Congress fornia in 1851 and engaged in mining and other pursuits; but was an unsuccessful candidate in 1998 for election to returned to New York and engaged in steamboating on the the United States Senate. Hudson River; settled in Catskill, Greene County, N.Y., and engaged in mercantile pursuits and the manufacture of BAFALIS, Louis Arthur (Skip), a Representative from leather; supervisor of the town of Catskill 1860-1864; elected Florida; born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., September as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875- 28, 1929; graduated from Manchester Central High School, March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for renomination in Manchester, N.H, 1948.; A.B., St. Anselm’s College, Man- 1876; resumed his former mercantile pursuits; elected to chester, N.H., 1952; United States Army, 1953-1956; invest- the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); ment banker; member of the Florida state house of rep- chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Forty-eighth Con- resentatives, 1964; member of the Florida state senate, gress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1884; en- 1966-1970; unsuccessful candidate for nomination for Gov- gaged in banking and the insurance business and also ernor of Florida, 1970; elected as a Republican to the Ninety- served as vice president of the Catskill Mountain Railway 594 Biographical Directory

Co.; trustee of the village of Catskill; member of the State 1945; attended the public schools of Allegheny and West- assembly in 1888; unsuccessful candidate for election in moreland Counties; graduated, Greensburg (Pa.) High 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; died in Catskill, N.Y., Octo- School, 1963; B.A., , Ann Arbor, ber 23, 1902; interment in the Village Cemetery. Mich., 1967; J.D., Duquesne University School of Law, Pitts- burgh, Pa., 1976; served in the United States Army, first BAILEY, Alexander Hamilton, a Representative from lieutenant, Vietnam, 1967-1970; admitted to the Pennsyl- New York; born in Minisink, N.Y., August 14, 1817; was vania bar in 1976 and commenced practice in Greensburg, graduated from Princeton College in 1837; studied law; was Pa., and before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; other admitted to the bar and commenced practice; examiner in past occupations; J. & L. Steel Corp., laborer, steel and chancery of Greene County 1840-1842; justice of the peace construction industry, painter, plant security, and assembly of the town of Catskill for four years; member of the State line worker; Democratic State committee, administrative assembly in 1849; judge of Greene County 1851-1855; moved head and registration chairman; elected as a Democrat to to , Oneida County, N.Y., in 1856 and continued the the Ninety-sixth and the Ninety-seventh Congresses (Janu- practice of law; served in the State senate 1861-1864; elected ary 3, 1979-January 3, 1983); unsuccessful candidate for as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress to fill the vacancy renomination in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress; was caused by the resignation of ; reelected to an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United the Forty-first Congress and served from November 30, States Senate in 1986; Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1867, to March 3, 1871; chairman, Committee on Expendi- 1985-1989; unsuccessful candidate for renomination for tures in the Department of State (Forty-first Congress); was Auditor General of Pennsylvania in 1990 and for nomination not a candidate for renomination in 1870; elected judge of for Auditor General in 1992; is a resident of Greensburg, the Oneida County Court in 1871 and served until his death Pa. in Rome, Oneida County, N.Y., April 20, 1874; interment in Rome Cemetery. BAILEY, Goldsmith Fox, a Representative from Massa- chusetts; born in Westmoreland, Cheshire County, N.H., BAILEY, Cleveland Monroe, a Representative from July 17, 1823; attended the public schools of Fitchburg, West Virginia; born on a farm near St. Marys, Pleasants Mass.; editor and publisher of the Bellows Falls (Vt.) Ga- County, W.Va., July 15, 1886; attended the public schools, zette in 1844; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and West Liberty State College, West Liberty, W.Va.; was and commenced practice in Fitchburg, Mass.; served on the graduated from Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pa., in 1908; school committee 1849-1854; appointed postmaster of Fitch- high school principal at Clarksburg, W.Va., in 1917 and burg on May 3, 1851 and served until May 4, 1853, when 1918; district supervisor of schools 1919-1922; councilman his successor was appointed; member of the State house of Clarksburg, W.Va., 1921-1923; Associated Press editor in of representatives in 1857; served in the State senate 1858- Clarksburg, W.Va., 1923-1933; assistant State auditor 1933- 1860; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress 1941; State budget director 1941-1944; delegate to the and served from March 4, 1861, until his death in Fitchburg, Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1932; elected Worcester County, Mass., May 8, 1862; interment in Laurel as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, Hill Cemetery. 1945-January 3, 1947); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; State tax statistician BAILEY, James Edmund, a Senator from Tennessee; in 1947 and 1948; elected to the Eighty-first and to the born in Montgomery County, Tenn., August 15, 1822; at- six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, tended the Clarksville Academy and the University of Nash- 1963); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1962 to the ville; studied law; admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1843 Eighty-eighth Congress; was a resident of Clarksburg, and commenced practice in Clarksville, Montgomery County; W.Va.; died in Charleston, W.Va., July 13, 1965; interment elected as a Whig to the Tennessee house of representatives in Greenlawn Cemetery, Clarksburg, W.Va. in 1853; during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army as colonel of the Forty-ninth Tennessee Regiment; BAILEY, David Jackson, a Representative from Geor- appointed a member of the court of arbitration by the Gov- gia; born in Lexington, Ga., March 11, 1812; educated by ernor of Tennessee in 1874; elected as a Democrat to the a private tutor; moved to Jackson, Butts County, in 1829; United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1831 and practiced; of Andrew Johnson and served from January 19, 1877, to elected to the State legislature before he was twenty-one, March 3, 1881; an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in but was not permitted to take his seat because he was 1880; chairman, Committee on Education and Labor (Forty- not of legal age; served as captain of a company through sixth Congress); resumed the practice of law; died in Clarks- the Seminole and Creek Wars; served in the State house ville, Tenn., December 29, 1885; interment in Greenwood of representatives in 1835 and 1847; member of the State Cemetery. senate in 1838, 1849, and 1850; delegate to the Democratic Bibliography: McCord, Franklin. ‘‘J. E. Bailey: A Gentleman of Clarks- county conventions in 1839 and 1850; secretary of the State ville.’’ Tennessee Historical Quarterly 23 (September 1964): 246-68; senate 1839-1841; elected as a State Rights candidate to McKellar, Kenneth. ‘‘James Edmund Bailey,’’ in Tennessee Senators as the Thirty-second Congress and as a Democrat to the Thirty- Seen by One of their Successors. Kingsport, Tenn.: Southern Publishers, third Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1855); unsuccessful Inc., 1942: 372-385. candidate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Con- gress; again a member of the State senate, in 1855 and BAILEY, Jeremiah, a Representative from ; born 1856, and served as president; resumed the practice of law in Little Compton, R.I., May 1, 1773; attended the common in Jackson, Ga.; member of the secession convention in 1861; schools and was graduated from Brown University, Provi- entered the Confederate Army during the Civil War and dence, R.I., in 1794; studied law; was admitted to the bar became colonel of the Thirtieth Regiment, Georgia Infantry; and commenced practice in Wiscasset, Maine (until 1820 moved to Griffin, Spalding County, Ga., in 1861, where he a district of Massachusetts), in 1798; presidential elector died June 14, 1897; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. on the Federalist ticket in 1808; member of the general court 1811-1814; judge of probate 1816-1834; elected as a BAILEY, Donald Allen, a Representative from Pennsyl- Whig to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835-March vania; born in , Allegheny County, Pa., July 21, 3, 1837); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1836 to Biographies 595

the Twenty-fifth Congress; collector of customs of Wiscasset bar in 1883 and commenced practice in Hazlehurst, Miss.; 1849-1853; died in Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Maine, July moved to Gainesville, Tex., in 1885 and continued the prac- 6, 1853; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. tice of law; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1891-March BAILEY, John, a Representative from Massachusetts; 3, 1901); was not a candidate for renomination in 1900; born in 1786 in that part of Stoughton, Norfolk County, elected to the United States Senate in 1901, reelected in Mass.; which in 1797 was set apart and named Canton; 1907, and served from March 4, 1901, until January 3, 1913, was graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Revolutionary 1807; tutor and librarian at Providence, R.I., 1807-1814; Claims (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Woman Suf- member of the Massachusetts state house of representatives, frage (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Additional Accom- 1814-1817; clerk in the Department of State in Washington, modations for the Library (Sixty-second Congress); resumed D.C., 1817-1823; presented credentials as a Member-elect the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; subsequently moved to the Eighteenth Congress, but the election was contested to Dallas, Tex., in 1921 and continued the practice of law; on the ground that he was not a resident of the district unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Texas in 1920; died he purported to represent, and by resolution of March 18, in a courtroom in Sherman, Tex., on April 13, 1929; inter- 1824, the House declared he was not entitled to the seat; ment in Gainesville Cemetery, Gainesville, Tex. returned to Canton, Mass., and was subsequently elected Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- to fill the vacancy thus caused in this Congress; reelected ography; Acheson, Sam. Joe Bailey, The Last Democrat. 1932. Reprint. to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Congresses Freeport, N.Y.: Books For Libraries Press, 1970; Holcomb, Bob C. ‘‘Senator (December 13, 1824-March 3, 1831); chair, Committee on Joe Bailey, Two Decades of Controversy.’’ Ph.D. dissertation, Texas Tech Expenditures in the Department of State (Nineteenth Con- University, 1968. gress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1830; mem- BAILEY, Joseph Weldon, Jr. (son of Joseph Weldon ber of the State senate, 1831-1834; unsuccessful Anti-Ma- Bailey), a Representative from Texas; born in Gainesville, sonic candidate for Governor in 1834; died in Dorchester, Cooke County, Tex., December 15, 1892; attended the public Mass., June 26, 1835; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. schools in Gainesville, Tex., and Washington, D.C.; grad- BAILEY, John Mosher, a Representative from New uated from , Princeton, N.J., 1915; York; born in Bethlehem, N.Y., August 24, 1838; attended graduated from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, the public schools, and Hudson River Institute at Claverack, Va., 1919; United States Army, 1917-1919; lawyer, private N.Y.; was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., practice; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Con- in 1861; during the Civil War entered the as gress (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935); was not a candidate a first lieutenant and adjutant of the One Hundred and for renomination in 1934, but was an unsuccessful candidate Seventy-seventh Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate; and served in the Department of the Gulf in 1862; graduated United State Marine Corps, 1942-1943; died on July 17, from the Albany Law School in 1864; was admitted to the 1943, in Gainesville, Tex.; interment in Gainesville Ceme- bar the same year and commenced practice in Albany, N.Y.; tery, Gainesville, Tex. assistant district attorney of Albany County 1865-1867; col- BAILEY, Josiah William, a Senator from North Caro- lector of internal revenue 1871-1874; district attorney of Al- lina; born in Warrenton, Warren County, N.C., September bany County 1874-1877; elected as a Republican to the 14, 1873; moved with his parents to Raleigh, N.C., in 1877; Forty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death attended the public schools and Raleigh Male Academy; of Terence J. Quinn; reelected to the Forty-sixth Congress graduated from Wake Forest College in 1893; editor of the and served from November 5, 1878, to March 3, 1881; was Biblical Recorder 1893-1907; member of the State board of not a candidate for renomination in 1880; United States agriculture 1896-1900; studied law; admitted to the bar in consul to Hamburg, , by appointment of President 1908 and commenced practice in Raleigh, N.C.; United Garfield 1881-1885; delegate to the Republican National States collector of internal revenue for North Carolina 1913- Convention in 1888; appointed by President Harrison as 1921; member of the North Carolina Constitutional Commis- surveyor of customs at Albany, N.Y., 1889-1894; resumed sion in 1915; trustee of the University of North Carolina the practice of law; died in Albany, N.Y., February 21, 1916; 1930; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate interment in Elmwood Cemetery, Bethlehem, N.Y. in 1930; reelected in 1936 and again in 1942, and served from March 4, 1931, until his death in Raleigh on December BAILEY, Joseph, a Representative from Pennsylvania; 15, 1946; chairman, Committee on Claims (Seventy-third born in Pennsbury Township, Chester County, Pa., March through Seventy-fifth Congresses), Committee on Commerce 18, 1810; attended the common schools; learned the trade (Seventy-sixth through Seventy-ninth Congresses); inter- of a hatter, which he carried on in Parkersville; served in ment in Oakwood Cemetery. the State house of representatives in 1840; member of the Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- State senate in 1843; moved to Perry County in 1845; again ography; Marcello, Ronald. ‘‘Senator , Harry Hopkins, and the a member of the State senate 1851-1853; State treasurer WPA: A Prelude to the .’’ Southern Studies 22 (Win- of Pennsylvania in 1854; studied law; was admitted to the ter 1983): 321-29; Moore, John R. Senator Josiah William Bailey of North bar in 1860; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh Carolina: A Political Biography. Durham: Duke University Press, 1968. and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1865); member of the State constitutional convention in BAILEY, R. Wendell, a Representative from ; 1872; died at Bailey Station, Perry County, Pa., on August born in Willow Springs, Mo., July 30, 1940; graduated from 26, 1885; interment in Bloomfield Cemetery, New Bloom- Willow Springs High School, Willow Springs, Mo.; B.S., field, Pa. Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Mo., 1962; automobile dealer; member, Willow Springs, Mo., city coun- BAILEY, Joseph Weldon (father of Joseph Weldon Bai- cil, 1969-1971; mayor, Willow Springs, Mo., 1971-1972; mem- ley, Jr.), a Representative and a Senator from Texas; born ber of the Missouri state house of representatives, 1972- near Crystal Springs, Copiah County, Miss., October 6, 1862; 1980; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-seventh Con- attended the common schools; studied law; admitted to the gress (January 3, 1981-January 3, 1983); was an unsuccess- 596 Biographical Directory

ful candidate for reelection to the Ninety-eighth Congress unsuccessfully contested the election of Anderson H. Walters in 1982; Missouri state treasurer, 1985-1993; unsuccessful to the Sixty-ninth Congress; resumed journalism in Johns- candidate for nomination for Governor of Missouri in 1992; town, Cambria County, Pa., where he died November 9, unsuccessful candidate for election as lieutenant governor 1928; interment in Grandview Cemetery. of Missouri in 2000. BAILEY, Willis Joshua, a Representative from Kansas; BAILEY, Ralph Emerson, a Representative from Mis- born near Mount Carroll, Carroll County, Ill., October 12, souri; born in Cainsville, Harrison County, Mo., July 14, 1854; attended the common schools, Mount Carroll High 1878; moved to Illinois with his parents, who settled in School, and the University of Illinois at Urbana; moved to Benton, Franklin County, in 1880; attended the graded and Nemaha County, Kans., in 1879; engaged in agricultural high schools at Benton; moved to Bloomfield, Stoddard pursuits, stock raising, and banking; founded the town of County, Mo., in 1897; was graduated from the Southeast Baileyville, Kans.; member of the Kansas house of represent- Missouri Teachers’ College at Cape Girardeau in 1901; after- atives 1888-1890; president of the Republican State League wards took a special course in the University of Missouri in 1893; member of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture at Columbia; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1907 1895-1899; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Con- and commenced practice in Bloomfield, Mo.; moved to gress (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1901); was not a candidate Sikeston, Scott County, Mo., in 1910 and continued the prac- for renomination in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress; Gov- tice of law; city attorney 1912-1914 and again 1918-1922; ernor of Kansas 1903-1905; moved to Atchison, Kans., in served as a member of the board of regents of the Southeast 1907 and engaged in the banking business; elected a director Missouri Teachers’ College; elected as a Republican to the of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Mo., in 1914, Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927); was governor in 1922, and served until his death in Mission not a candidate for renomination in 1926 to the Seventieth Hills, Johnson County, Kans., May 19, 1932; interment in Congress; resumed the practice of law in Sikeston, Mo.; died Mount Vernon Cemetery, Atchison, Kans. in Cape Girardeau, Mo., April 8, 1948; interment in the City Cemetery, Sikeston, Mo. BAIRD, Brian, a Representative from Washington; born in Chama, Rio Arriba County, N.Mex., March 7, 1956; B.S., BAILEY, Theodorus, a Representative and a Senator University of , Provo, Utah, 1977; M.S., University of from New York; born near Fishkill, Dutchess County, N.Y., Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo., 1980; Ph.D., University of Wyo- October 12, 1758; attended the rural schools; studied law; ming, Laramie, Wyo., 1984; clinical psychologist; professor, admitted to the bar in 1778 and commenced practice in Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Wash., 1986-1998; un- Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; served with the New York Militia dur- successful candidate for election to the One Hundred Fifth ing the Revolutionary War; served in the State militia 1786- Congress in 1996; elected as a Democrat to the One Hun- 1805 and attained the rank of brigadier general; elected dred Sixth Congress and to the two succeeding Congresses to the Third and Fourth Congresses (March 4, 1793-March (January 3, 1999-present). 3, 1797); elected to the Sixth Congress (March 4, 1799- March 3, 1801); elected to the Seventh Congress to fill the BAIRD, David (father of David Baird, Jr.), a Senator vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas Tillotson and from New Jersey; born in Londonderry, County Derry, Ire- served from October 6, 1801, to March 3, 1803; simulta- land, April 7, 1839; attended the common schools; immi- neously served in the New York State assembly in 1802; grated to the United States in 1856 and entered the lumber elected to the United States Senate and served from March business in Port Deposit, Md.; moved in 1860 to Camden, 4, 1803, to January 16, 1804, when he resigned to accept N.J., where he continued in the lumber business and also the position of postmaster of the city of New York, which engaged in banking; member of the board of chosen he held until his death on September 6, 1828; interment freeholders of Camden County 1876-1880; sheriff of Camden in the Dutch Burying Ground; reinterment in the Rural County 1887-1889 and 1895-1897; member of the State Cemetery, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., January 8, 1864. board of assessors in 1895 and 1901-1909; unsuccessful can- didate for election to the United States Senate in 1910; BAILEY, Warren Worth, a Representative from Pennsyl- appointed on February 23, 1918, and subsequently elected vania; born in New Winchester, Hendricks County, Ind., on November 5, 1918, as a Republican to the United States January 8, 1855; moved to Illinois with his parents, who Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William settled in Edgar County in 1863; attended the country Hughes and served from February 23, 1918, to March 3, schools; became a telegrapher, at which he worked until 1919; was not a candidate for renomination in 1918; re- 1875, when he joined the Kansas (Ill.) News and learned sumed his former business pursuits in Camden, N.J., where the printing trade; engaged in the publishing business with he died on February 25, 1927; interment in Harleigh Ceme- his brother at Carlisle, Ind., in 1877; subsequently they tery. purchased the Vincennes News, which they published until 1887; moved to Chicago in 1887 and became a member BAIRD, David, Jr. (son of David Baird), a Senator from of the staff of the Daily News and later of the Evening New Jersey; born in Camden, N.J., October 10, 1881; at- Mail; moved to Johnstown, Pa., in 1893 and published the tended the Raymond Academy at Camden and Penn Charter Daily Democrat, devoted to the single-tax principle; unsuc- School in Philadelphia, Penn.; graduated from Lawrenceville cessful Democratic candidate for election in 1906 to the Six- (N.J.) School in 1899 and from Princeton University in 1903; tieth Congress; delegate at large to the Democratic National engaged in lumber business and banking in Camden, N.J., Convention at Baltimore in 1912; elected as a Democrat from 1903 to 1929; appointed on November 30, 1929, as to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses (March 4, a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy 1913-March 3, 1917); chairman, Committee on Mileage caused by the resignation of Walter E. Edge, and served (Sixty-third Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the from November 30, 1929, to December 2, 1930, when a duly Department of Justice (Sixty-fourth Congress); unsuccessful elected successor qualified; not a candidate for election to candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress the vacancy in 1930; unsuccessful candidate for Governor and for election in 1920, 1922, and 1926 to the Sixty-sev- of New Jersey in 1931; resumed former business pursuits; enth, Sixty-eighth, and Seventieth Congresses, respectively; appointed by the Governor to the Delaware River Joint Com- Biographies 597

mission to fill an unexpired term in 1938; engaged in insur- BAKER, David Jewett, a Senator from Illinois; born ance brokerage business; died in Camden, N.J., February in East Haddam, Conn., September 7, 1792; moved with 28, 1955; interment in Harleigh Cemetery. his parents to Ontario County, N.Y.; attended the common schools and graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., BAIRD, Joseph Edward, a Representative from Ohio; in 1816; studied law; admitted to the Illinois bar in 1819 born at Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio, November 12, 1865; and commenced the practice of law in Kaskaskia, Ill.; pro- attended the public schools; was graduated from the bate judge of Randolph County from August 1827 until De- Perrysburg High School in 1885 and from the law depart- cember 6, 1830, when he resigned to become Senator; ap- ment of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1893; pointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill was admitted to the bar in 1893 but did not practice; moved the vacancy caused by the death of John McLean and served to Bowling Green, Ohio, in 1894 and served as county clerk from November 12, 1830, to December 11, 1830, when a of Wood County 1894-1900; engaged as a dealer in oil and successor was elected and qualified; was not a candidate farm lands from 1900 to 1921; served as mayor of Bowling for election in 1830 to fill the vacancy; appointed United Green 1902-1905, and as postmaster 1910-1914; secretary States district attorney for the district of Illinois in 1833 of the Ohio Public Utilities Commission 1921-1923; served and served until 1841; resumed the practice of law; died as assistant secretary of state 1923-1929; elected as a Re- in Alton, Madison County, Ill., August 6, 1869; interment publican to the Seventy-first Congress (March 4, 1929-March in City Cemetery. 3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress; retired from active business BAKER, , a Representative from Illi- pursuits and political activities; died in Bowling Green, nois and a Senator from ; born in London, , Ohio, June 14, 1942; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. February 24, 1811; immigrated to the United States in 1815 with his parents, who settled in Philadelphia, Pa.; moved BAIRD, Samuel Thomas, a Representative from Lou- to Illinois in 1825; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1830 isiana; born in Oak Ridge, Morehouse Parish, La., May 5, and commenced practice in Springfield; member, State house 1861; educated under private tutors and attended the Vin- of representatives 1837; member, State senate 1840-1844; cennes (Ind.) University; studied law; was admitted to the elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth Congress and served bar in 1882 and commenced practice in Bastrop, Morehouse from March 4, 1845, until his resignation on December 24, Parish, La.; district attorney of the sixth judicial district 1846, to take effect on January 15, 1847; commissioned colo- 1884-1888; district judge of the sixth judicial district 1888- nel of the Fourth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, on 1892; resumed the practice of law in Bastrop; member of July 4, 1846, and served until he was honorably mustered the State senate in 1896; delegate to the Democratic Na- out on May 29, 1847; participated in the siege of Vera Cruz tional Convention at Chicago in 1896; elected as a Democrat and commanded a brigade at Cerro Gordo; after the Mexican to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses and served from War moved to Galena, Ill.; elected as a Whig to the Thirty- March 4, 1897, until his death in Washington, D.C., April first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); was not a 22, 1899; interment in Christ Church Cemetery, Bastrop, candidate for renomination in 1850; moved to , La. Calif., in 1851 and resumed the practice of law; moved to BAKER, Caleb, a Representative from New York; born Oregon in 1860; elected as a Republican to the United States in Providence, R.I., in 1762; moved to New York in 1790 Senate to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March and resided in the towns of Chemung, Ashland, and New- 4, 1859, and served from October 2, 1860, until his death; town, Tioga County, from 1790 to 1836, and in Southport, raised a regiment in New York City and Philadelphia during Chemung County, from 1836 until his death; studied law; the Civil War; commissioned brigadier general of Volunteers was admitted to the bar and practiced; assessor of the town May 17, 1861, but declined; colonel of the Seventy-first Regi- of Chemung in 1791; taught school in Wellsburg, Chemung ment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and major general County, in 1803 and 1804; appointed surrogate of Tioga of Volunteers 1861; killed in the Battle of Balls Bluff, Va., County on April 7, 1806, April 13, 1825, and again in 1829; October 21, 1861; interment in San Francisco National Cem- appointed judge of common pleas in 1810; member of the etery, San Francisco, Calif. State assembly in 1814, 1815, and again in 1829; justice Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Blair, Harry, and of the peace of the town of Chemung in 1816; elected to Tarshis, Rebecca. Colonel Edward D. Baker: Lincoln’s Constant Ally. Port- land: Oregon Historical Society, 1960; Braden, Gayle Anderson. ‘‘The Pub- the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); died lic Career of Edward Dickinson Baker.’’ Ph.D. dissertation, Vanderbilt Uni- in Southport (now a part of Elmira), Chemung County, N.Y., versity, 1960. June 26, 1849; interment in Fitzsimmons Cemetery. BAKER, Ezra, a Representative from New Jersey; born BAKER, Charles Simeon, a Representative from New in Tuckerton, N.J., in 1765c; moved with his parents to York; born in Churchville, Monroe County, N.Y., February the Province of East Jersey about 1765; educated for the 18, 1839; attended the common schools, Cary Collegiate In- medical profession and commenced practice; moved to Abse- stitute of Oakfield, and the New York Seminary at Lima; con, N.J., in 1799; served as collector of customs at the taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in De- port of Great Egg Harbor, N.J., February 18, 1813-March cember 1860 and commenced practice in Rochester, N.Y.; 1, 1815; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress served in the Union Army during the Civil War as first (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); moved westward to the ‘‘Wa- lieutenant, Company E, Twenty-seventh Regiment, New bash country’’ with his sons in 1818 and engaged in the York Volunteer Infantry; disabled in the first Battle of Bull culture of castor beans for the market; died Run and honorably discharged; member of the New York in the ‘‘Wabash country’’; death date unknown. State assembly 1879-1882; served in the State senate in 1884 and 1885; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth, BAKER, Henry Moore, a Representative from New Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1885-March Hampshire; born in Bow, near Concord, N.H., January 11, 3, 1891); chairman, Committee on Commerce (Fifty-first 1841; attended the common schools, Pembroke, Tilton, and Congress); resumed the practice of law in Rochester, N.Y.; Hopkinton Academies, ; was graduated from died in Washington, D.C., April 21, 1902; interment in the New Hampshire Conference Seminary in 1859, Dart- Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y. mouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1863, and the law school 598 Biographical Directory

of Columbian (now ) University, Wash- Chancery Court, Sevierville, Tenn., 1922-1924; Republican ington, D.C., in 1866; was admitted to the bar in 1866; National Committeewoman for Tennessee 1960-1964; elected clerk in the War and Treasury Departments 1864-1874; com- as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth Congress to fill the menced the practice of law in Washington, D.C., in 1874; vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Howard H. judge advocate general of the National Guard of New Hamp- Baker, serving from March 10, 1964, to January 3, 1965; shire in 1886 and 1887 with rank of brigadier general; mem- was not a candidate in 1964 for renomination to the Eighty- ber of the State senate in 1891 and 1892; elected as a ninth Congress; director, Public Welfare, city of Knoxville, Republican to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses 1965-1971; was a resident of Knoxville, Tenn., until her (March 3, 1893-March 3, 1897); was not a candidate for death in Loudon, Tenn., on April 2, 1994. renomination in 1896; resumed the practice of his profession in Washington, D.C., but retained his legal residence in BAKER, Jacob Thompson, a Representative from New Bow, N.H.; member of the New Hampshire house of rep- Jersey; born near Cowan, Union County, Pa., April 13, 1847; resentatives 1905-1909; died in Washington, D.C., May 30, attended the public schools and Bucknell University, 1912; interment in Alexander Cemetery, Bow, N.H. Lewisburg, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice in Lewisburg, Pa.; chairman BAKER, Howard Henry (husband of Irene Bailey Baker of the Democratic State convention in 1905; moved to New and father of Howard Henry Baker, Jr.), a Representative Jersey and was one of the founders of Wildwood and the from Tennessee; born in Somerset, Pulaski County, Ky., Jan- borough of Wildwood Crest; first mayor of the consolidated uary 12, 1902; moved with his parents to Huntsville, Scott city of Wildwood in 1911 and 1912; delegate to the Demo- County, Tenn.; attended the public schools of Scott and Knox cratic National Convention in 1912; elected as a Democrat Counties, Tenn.; was graduated from the University of Ten- to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); nessee at Knoxville in 1922 and from its law school in 1924; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty- was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1923 and commenced fourth Congress; resumed real-estate activities in Wildwood, the practice of law in Huntsville, Tenn.; publisher of a week- N.J.; died in Philadelphia, Pa., December 7, 1919; interment ly newspaper in Huntsville, Tenn.; served in the Tennessee in Cold Spring Cemetery, Cold Spring, Cape May County, house of representatives in 1929 and 1930; member of Scott N.J. County Board of Education in 1931 and 1932; attorney gen- eral of the nineteenth judicial circuit of Tennessee 1934- BAKER, Jehu, a Representative from Illinois; born near 1948; vice president and general counsel of the Oneida & Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., November 4, 1822; moved Western Railroad Co., in 1945; member of the board of direc- with his father to Lebanon, Ill., in 1829; attended the com- tors, First National Bank of Oneida, Tenn.; unsuccessful mon schools and McKendree College at Lebanon; studied Republican candidate for Governor in 1938 and for United law; was admitted to the bar in 1846 and commenced prac- States Senator in 1940; delegate to the Republican National tice at Belleville, St. Clair County, Ill.; master in chancery Conventions in 1940, 1948, 1952, and 1956; elected as a of St. Clair County 1861-1865; elected as a Republican to Republican to the Eighty-second and to the six succeeding the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865- Congresses and served from January 3, 1951, until his death March 3, 1869); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in in Knoxville, Tenn., January 7, 1964; interment in Sherwood the Post Office Department (Thirty-ninth Congress), Com- Memorial Gardens. mittee on Education and Labor (Fortieth Congress); served BAKER, Howard Henry, Jr. (son of Howard Henry as United States Minister to Venezuela 1878-1881 and 1882- Baker, stepson of Irene Bailey Baker, son-in-law of Everett 1885, being Minister Resident and consul general for a time Dirksen, and husband of Nancy Landon Kassebaum), a Sen- during the latter portion of his service; elected as a Repub- ator from Tennessee; born in Huntsville, Scott County, lican to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, Tenn., November 15, 1925; attended , New 1889); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Orleans, La., and University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.; Fifty-first Congress; continued the practice of law; elected graduated from the University of Tennessee Law College as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897- 1949; served in the 1943-1946; admitted March 3, 1899); declined to be a candidate for renomination to the Tennessee bar in 1949 and commenced practice; un- in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice successful candidate for election to the U.S. Senate in 1964; of law; died in Belleville, Ill., on March 1, 1903; interment elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1966; in Walnut Hill Cemetery. reelected in 1972 and again in 1978, and served from Janu- BAKER, John, a Representative from Virginia; born in ary 3, 1967, to January 3, 1985; did not seek reelection; Frederick County, Md., birth dates unknown; attended minority leader 1977-1981; majority leader 1981-1985; un- Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), successful candidate for the Republican nomination for Lexington, Va., for three years; studied law; was admitted President of the United States in 1980; lawyer in Wash- to the bar and began practice in Berkeley County, Va. (now ington, D.C.; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Jefferson County, W.Va.); member of the State house of on March 26, 1984; chief of staff to President delegates, 1798-1799; one of the lawyers who defended 1987-1988; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 2001-. Aaron Burr when he was tried for treason; elected as a Bibliography: Annis, James. : Conciliator in an Age of Crises. Lanham, Md.: Madison Books, 1994; U.S. Congress. Senate. Trib- Federalist to the Twelfth Congress (March 4, 1811-March utes to the Honorable Howard Baker, Jr., of Tennessee in the United 3, 1813); resumed the practice of law; Commonwealth attor- States Senate, Upon the Occasion of His Retirement from the Senate. 98th ney for Jefferson County; died in Shepherdstown, Jefferson Cong., 2d sess., 1984. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1984. County, Va. (now West Virginia), August 18, 1823; inter- ment in the Old Episcopal Church Cemetery. BAKER, Irene Bailey (wife of Howard Henry Baker and stepmother of Howard Henry Baker, Jr.), a Representative BAKER, John Harris (brother of ), a Rep- from Tennessee; born Edith Irene Bailey, November 17, resentative from Indiana; born in Parma Township, Monroe 1901, in Sevierville, Sevier County, Tenn., attended the pub- County, N.Y., February 28, 1832; moved with his parents lic schools of Sevierville and Maryville; studied music; dep- to the present county of Fulton, Ohio; attended the public uty county court clerk, 1918-1922; deputy clerk and master, schools; taught school; attended the Wesleyan University Biographies 599

in Delaware, Ohio, two years; studied law in Adrian, Mich.; BAKER, Richard Hugh, a Representative from Lou- was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced practice isiana; born in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La., May 22, in Goshen, Ind.; member of the State senate in 1862, but, 1948; graduated from University High School; B.A., Lou- being a notary public at the time, was unseated because isiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., 1971; member the State constitution forbid the simultaneous holding of of the state house of representatives, 1972-1986; two lucrative offices; elected as a Republican to the Forty- elected as a Republican to the One Hundredth and to the fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, eight succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1987-present). 1875-March 3, 1881); declined to be a candidate for renomi- nation in 1880; resumed the practice of law in Goshen, Ind.; BAKER, Robert, a Representative from New York; born delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1888; at Bury St. Edmunds, England, in April 1862; attended the appointed judge of the United States District Court for Indi- common schools; immigrated to the United States in 1882 ana by President Harrision in 1892 and served until his and settled in Albany, N.Y.; moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., in retirement in 1904; resided in Goshen, Elkhart County, Ind., 1889; unsuccessful candidate for election to the State assem- until his death on October 21, 1915; interment in Oak Ridge bly in 1894; auditor of New York City in 1902; elected as Cemetery. a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903- March 3, 1905); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904 BAKER, LaMar, a Representative from Tennessee; born to the Fifty-ninth Congress and for election in 1906 to the in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tenn., December 29, Sixtieth Congress; became secretary of the New York City 1915; attended the Chattanooga public schools; attended Department of Docks and Ferries in 1906; engaged in stone David Lipscomb College, Nashville, Tenn., 1936-1938; B.S., paving and in the general real-estate business in Brooklyn, Harding College, Searcy, Ark., 1940; United States Army N.Y., until his death there on June 15, 1943; interment Air Corps, 1942-1946; member of the Tennessee state gen- in Evergreen Cemetery. eral assembly, 1967-1968; member of the Tennessee state senator, 1969-1970; business owner; trustee, Boyd-Buchanan BAKER, Stephen, a Representative from New York; born School; delegate to Tennessee State Republican conventions, in New York City, August 12, 1819; attended the common 1964-1972; delegate to Republican National Convention, schools; engaged as importer and jobber in woolen goods; 1972; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-second and moved to Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., in 1850; Ninety-third Congresses (January 3, 1971-January 3, 1975); elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); abandoned active business Congress in 1974; unsuccessful candidate for election to the pursuits and lived in retirement until his death, while en Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976; regional representative to the route to California for his health, on a train near Ogden, secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation, 1981- Utah, June 9, 1875; interment in the Rural Cemetery, 1985; died on June 20, 2003, Nashville, Tenn.; interment Poughkeepsie, N.Y. in Woodlawn Memorial Park, Nashville, Tenn. BAKER, William, a Representative from Kansas; born BAKER, Lucien (brother of John Harris Baker), a Sen- near Centerville, Washington County, Pa., April 29, 1831; ator from Kansas; born near Cleveland, Fulton County, attended the public schools and was graduated from the Ohio, June 8, 1846; moved with his parents to Morenci, Waynesboro College in 1856; taught school; moved to Iowa Mich.; attended the public schools and graduated from Adri- in 1859 and became principal of the public schools in Council an College, Michigan, and from the law department of the Bluffs; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1860 University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; admitted to the bar but never practiced; returned to Bealsville, Washington in 1868 and commenced practice in Leavenworth, Kans., County, Pa., in 1865; engaged in mercantile pursuits 1865- in 1869; city attorney of Leavenworth 1872-1874; member 1878; moved to Lincoln County, Kans., in 1878; engaged of the State senate 1893-1895; elected as a Republican to in agricultural pursuits and stock raising; elected as a Popu- the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1895, list to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Con- to March 3, 1901; unsuccessful candidate for renomination; gresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1897); was not a candidate chairman, Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment for renomination in 1896; resumed agricultural pursuits; (Fifty-sixth Congress); resumed the practice of law in Leav- died in Lincoln, Kans., February 11, 1910; interment in Lin- enworth, Kans., where he died on June 21, 1907; interment coln Center Cemetery. in Mount Muncie Cemetery. BAKER, William Benjamin, a Representative from BAKER, , a Senator from Kansas (See Maryland; born near Aberdeen, Harford County, Md., July KASSEBAUM, Nancy Landon) 22, 1840; attended the common schools and was privately tutored; engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1872, when BAKER, Osmyn, a Representative from Massachusetts; he became interested in the canning industry, and later born in Amherst, Mass., May 18, 1800; attended Amherst in banking; delegate to several State and congressional con- Academy; was graduated from Yale College in 1822; studied ventions; member of the State house of delegates in 1881; law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in served in the State senate in 1893; elected as a Republican Amherst in 1825; member of the State house of representa- to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses tives 1833, 1834, 1836, and 1837; county commissioner of (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1901); was not a candidate for Hampshire County 1834-1837; elected as a Whig to the renomination in 1900; resumed the canning business; died Twenty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the in Aberdeen, Md., May 17, 1911; interment in Baker’s Ceme- death of James C. Alvord; reelected to the Twenty-seventh tery. and Twenty-eighth Congresses and served from January 14, 1840, to March 3, 1845; chairman, Committee on Accounts BAKER, William Henry, a Representative from New (Twenty-seventh Congress); was not a candidate for renomi- York; born in Lenox Township, Madison County, N.Y., Janu- nation in 1844; resumed the practice of law at Northampton ary 17, 1827; moved with his parents to Oswego County in 1845; first president of Smith Charities 1860-1870; died in 1829; attended the common schools and Red Creek and in Northampton, Mass., February 9, 1875; interment in Mexico Academies; studied law; was admitted to the bar Bridge Street Cemetery. in Syracuse, N.Y., in November 1851 and commenced prac- 600 Biographical Directory

tice in Cleveland, N.Y.; moved to Constantia, Oswego Coun- B.A., University of Maine, Orono, 1986; member of Bangor, ty, N.Y., in 1853; served as district attorney for Oswego Maine, city council, 1978-1981; member of the Maine state County from January 1863 to January 1870; elected as a senate, 1982-1994; elected as a Democrat to the One Hun- Republican to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses dred Fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (Janu- (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); declined to be a candidate ary 3, 1995-January 3, 2003); not a candidate for reelection for renomination in 1878; delegate to the State constitu- to the One Hundred Eighth Congress in 2002; Governor tional convention in 1884; engaged in agricultural pursuits; of Maine, 2003 to present. died in Constantia, N.Y., November 25, 1911; interment in Trinity Church Cemetery. BALDRIGE, Howard Malcolm, a Representative from ; born in Omaha, Nebr., June 23, 1894; attended BAKER, William P., a Representative from California; the public schools and was graduated from the Omaha High born in Oakland, Calif., June 14, 1940; attended public School; attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and was schools; B.S., San Jose State College, 1963; served in the graduated from Yale University in 1918; during the First United States Coast Guard Reserve, 1957-1965; business- World War served as captain of Battery F, Three Hundred man and farmer; budget analyst, California State depart- and Thirty-eighth Field Artillery; was graduated from the ment of finance, 1968-1972; executive vice president, Contra Nebraska Law School, at Lincoln, in 1921; was admitted Costa Taxpayers Association, 1972-1978; member, California to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Omaha, State assembly, 1981-1993; elected as a Republican to the Nebr.; served in the State house of representatives in 1923; One Hundred Third and One Hundred Fourth Congresses delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1924 (January 3, 1993-January 3, 1997); was an unsuccessful can- and 1928; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-second didate for reelection to the One Hundred Fifth Congress. Congress (March 4, 1931-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful can- BAKEWELL, Charles Montague, a Representative from didate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; ; born in Pittsburgh, Pa., April 24, 1867; at- resumed the practice of law; during the Second World War tended the public schools and the preparatory department entered the Army on June 10, 1942, as a major in the of Western University of Pennsylvania (now the University Air Corps and was discharged as a colonel on October 25, of Pittsburgh); was graduated from the University of Cali- 1945; resumed the practice of law with offices in New York fornia at Berkeley in 1889 and from , City, and Washington, D.C.; was a resident of Washington, Cambridge, Mass., in 1894; attended the Universities of Ber- Conn., until his death, January 19, 1985, in Southbury, lin, Strassburg, and Paris 1894-1896; instructor in philos- Conn. ophy at Harvard University in 1896 and 1897 and at the BALDUS, Alvin James, a Representative from Wis- University of California in 1897 and 1898; associate pro- consin; born in Garner, Hancock County, Iowa, April 27, fessor at Bryn Mawr College 1898-1900; associate professor 1926; graduated, Elkton (Minn.) High School; A.A., Austin and professor at the University of California 1900-1905; pro- (Minn.) Junior College, 1946-1948; worked as investment fessor of philosophy at Yale University 1905-1933; president broker and manufacturer’s agent for farm machinery; served of the American Philosophical Association in 1910; during in the United States Merchant Marine, 1944-1946; United the First World War served as inspector and historian, with States Army, 1951-1953, recipient of bronze star; served in rank of major and deputy commissioner, under the Italian the Wisconsin general assembly, 1966-1975; assistant major- Commission of the American Red Cross in Italy; served in ity leader, 1973; delegate, Wisconsin State Democratic con- the State senate 1920-1924; served as chairman of the com- ventions, 1966-1987; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety- mission to revise and codify the educational laws of the fourth through the Ninety-sixth Congresses (January 3, State of Connecticut 1921-1923; also engaged as an author 1975-January 3, 1981); unsuccessful candidate for reelection and editor; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-third in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress; member of the Wis- Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935); unsuccessful can- consin State assembly, 1989-1996; is a resident of Prescott, didate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; Wis. died in New Haven, Conn., September 19, 1957; interment in . BALDWIN, Abraham (half-brother of of Pennsylvania), a Delegate, a Representative, and a Senator BAKEWELL, Claude Ignatius, a Representative from from Georgia; born in North Guilford, Conn., November 22, Missouri; born in St. Louis, Mo., August 9, 1912; graduated from St. Louis University High School, St. Louis, Mo.; grad- 1754; moved with his father to New Haven, Conn., in 1769; uated, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.,1932; grad- attended private schools; graduated from Yale College in uated, St. Louis University School of Law, 1935; lawyer, 1772; subsequently studied theology at the college and was private practice; member, board of aldermen of St. Louis, licensed to preach in 1775; served as a tutor in that institu- Mo., 1941-1945; postmaster, city of St. Louis, 1958; United tion 1775-1779, when he resigned to enter the Army; chap- States Navy, 1944-1946; elected as a Republican to the lain in the Second Connecticut Brigade, Revolutionary Army, Eightieth Congress (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1949); un- from 1777 until 1783, when the troops disbanded; studied successful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-first Con- law during his service in the Army; admitted to the bar gress in 1948; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second in 1783 and practiced at Fairfield; moved to Augusta, Ga., Congress in a special election, to fill the vacancy caused in 1784 and continued the practice of law; member of the by the death of United States Representative John B. Sul- State house of representatives 1785; originator of the plan livan (March 9, 1951- January 3, 1953); unsuccessful can- for, and author of, the charter of the University of Georgia didate for reelection to the Eighty-third Congress in 1952; and served as president 1786-1801; member of the Conti- died, in University City, Mo., March 18, 1987; interment nental Congress 1785, 1787, and 1788; member of the at Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo. United States Constitutional Convention 1787; elected to the First and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, BALDACCI, John Elias, a Representative from Maine; 1789-March 3, 1799); elected to the United States Senate born in Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, January 30, 1955; in 1799; reelected in 1805 and served from March 4, 1799, graduated from Bangor High School, Bangor, Maine, 1973; until his death on March 4, 1807; served as President pro Biographies 601

tempore of the Senate during the Seventh Congress; died setts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass., in 1894; en- in Washington, D.C.; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery. gaged in sugar planting; member of the Territorial senate Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Furlong, Patrick J. 1913-1921; served as a lieutenant colonel and later as colo- ‘‘Abraham Baldwin: A Georgia Yankee as Old-Congress Man.’’ Georgia His- nel in the Third Regiment of the Hawaii National Guard torical Quarterly 56 (Spring 1972): 51-71; Coulter, E. Merton. Abraham 1915-1917; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Con- Baldwin: Patriot, Educator, and Founding Father. Arlington, VA: gress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. Kuhio Vandamere Press, 1987. Kalanianaole and served from March 25, 1922, to March BALDWIN, Augustus Carpenter, a Representative from 3, 1923; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1922; Michigan; born in Salina (now Syracuse), Onondaga County, resumed his former business pursuits and was also inter- N.Y., December 24, 1817; attended the public schools; moved ested in banking; served in the Hawaii house of representa- to Oakland County, Mich., in 1837 and taught school; stud- tives in 1933; member of the Hawaii senate 1934-1937, serv- ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced ing as president during the 1937 session; died at Paia, Maui practice in Milford, Oakland County; member of the State County, Hawaii, October 8, 1946; interment in Makawao house of representatives 1844-1846, serving as speaker pro Cemetery, Makawao, Hawaii. tempore in 1846; moved to Pontiac, Mich., in March 1849; prosecuting attorney for Oakland County 1853 and 1854; BALDWIN, Henry Porter, a Senator from Michigan; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions at Charles- born in Coventry, R.I., February 22, 1814; attended the com- ton and Baltimore in 1860; elected as a Union Democrat mon schools; moved to Detroit, Mich., and established whole- to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, sale business in boots and shoes in 1838; member of the 1865); unsuccessfully contested the election of Rowland E. convention which organized the Republican Party in Jack- Trowbridge to the Thirty-ninth Congress; delegate to the son, Mich., in 1854; director of the Michigan State Bank peace convention at Philadelphia in 1866; member of the and president of the Second National Bank of Detroit 1863- Pontiac School Board 1868-1886; mayor of Pontiac in 1874; 1887; member, State senate 1861-1862; Governor of Michi- judge of the sixth judicial circuit court of Michigan from gan 1869-1873; appointed and subsequently elected as a Re- 1875 until April 15, 1880, when he resigned and resumed publican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy the practice of law; member of the board of trustees of caused by the death of and served from the Eastern Michigan Asylum; died in Pontiac, Oakland November 17, 1879, to March 3, 1881; was not a candidate County, Mich., January 21, 1903; interment in Oak Hill for reelection; resumed his former business pursuits; presi- Cemetery. dent of the Detroit National Bank 1883-1887; died in De- troit, Mich., December 31, 1892; interment in Elmwood Cem- BALDWIN, Harry Streett, a Representative from Mary- etery. land; born in Baldwin, Baltimore County, Md., August 21, Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography. 1894; attended the public and high schools, and the Univer- sity of Maryland at College Park, Md.; owner and operator BALDWIN, John, a Representative from Connecticut; of a large truck farm; served in the State house of delegates born in Mansfield, Conn., April 5, 1772; attended the com- in 1931; member of the board of county commissioners 1934- mon schools; was graduated from Brown University, Provi- 1942, serving as president 1938-1942; elected as a Democrat dence, R.I., in 1797; studied law; was admitted to the bar to the Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses (Janu- in 1800 and commenced practice in Windham, Conn.; pro- ary 3, 1943-January 3, 1947); was not a candidate for re- bate judge of Windham County 1818-1824; elected to the nomination in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress, but was an Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1825-March unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the gubernatorial 3, 1829); affiliated with the Whig Party after its formation; nomination; resumed agricultural pursuits; again elected to resumed the practice of law; died in Windham, Windham the board of county commissioners in 1950 and was serving County, Conn., March 27, 1850; interment in Windham as chairman at time of death; died in Baltimore, Md., Octo- Cemetery. ber 19, 1952; interment in Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Jack- BALDWIN, John Denison, a Representative from Mas- sonville, Md. sachusetts; born in North Stonington, Conn., September 28, BALDWIN, Henry, a Representative from Pennsylvania; 1809; moved with his parents to Chenango County, N.Y., born in New Haven, Conn., January 14, 1780; was grad- in 1816; returned to North Stonington in 1823; attended uated from Hopkins Grammar School in 1793 and from Yale schools in Chenango County, N.Y., and in North Stonington, College in 1797; studied law; was admitted to the Philadel- Conn.; studied law for a time but discontinued the study phia bar in 1798 and commenced practice in Pittsburgh, for theology; was graduated from the Yale Divinity School Pa., in 1801; moved to Meadville, Crawford County, Pa.; in 1834; was licensed to preach and assumed Congregational elected to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Con- pastorates in West Woodstock, Conn., 1834-1837, in North gresses and served from March 4, 1817, until his resignation Branford 1838-1845, and in North Killingly 1846-1849; mem- on May 8, 1822; chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Six- ber of the State house of representatives 1847-1852; engaged teenth and Seventeenth Congresses); engaged in the manu- in newspaper work in Hartford, Conn., 1849-1852, in Boston, facture of iron at Bear Creek, Butler County, Pa.; resumed Mass., 1852-1859, and was connected with the Worcester the practice of law in Pittsburgh, Pa., appointed an Asso- Spy from 1859 until his death; delegate to the Republican ciate Justice of the United States Supreme Court on Janu- National Convention in 1860; elected as a Republican to ary 6, 1830, and served until his death in Philadelphia, the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses Pa., April 21, 1844; interment in Greendale Cemetery, (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1869); was not a candidate for Meadville, Pa. reelection in 1868; resumed his newspaper interests; died in Worcester, Mass., July 8, 1883; interment in the Rural BALDWIN, Henry Alexander, a Delegate from the Ter- Cemetery. ritory of Hawaii; born in Paliuli, Maui County, Hawaii, Jan- uary 12, 1871; attended Haiku School in Haiku, and BALDWIN, John Finley, Jr., a Representative from Punahou School in Honolulu; was graduated from Phillips California; born in Oakland, Alameda County, Calif., June Academy in Andover, Mass., in 1889 and from Massachu- 28, 1915; graduated from San Ramon Valley Union High 602 Biographical Directory

School in Danville, Calif., and from the University of Cali- moved to Middletown, Conn., in 1903 and attended the pub- fornia at Berkeley in 1935, majoring in accounting and fi- lic schools; graduated, Wesleyan University, Middletown, nance; assistant manager of South-Western Publishing Co., Conn., 1916; entered Yale University in 1916 but, when of San Francisco, 1936-1941; enlisted as a private in the war was declared, enlisted as a seaman in the United States United States Army in April 1941; served as director of Navy; assigned to officers’ training school, commissioned an training, Army Finance School, in 1943 and 1944; Chief ensign in February 1918, and promoted to lieutenant (jg.) of Foreign Fiscal Affairs Branch, Office of Fiscal Director, in September 1918; resigned from the Navy in August 1919 War Department, in 1945, and executive officer, Office of and returned to Yale University Law School, graduating Fiscal Director, Mediterranean Theater, in 1946; discharged in 1921; admitted to the bar in 1921 and practiced in New as a lieutenant colonel in October 1946; decorated by Italian Haven and Bridgeport, Conn.; prosecutor of Stratford Town Government for work in the devaluation of the lira currency Court 1927-1930; judge of Stratford Town Court 1931-1933; in 1946; graduated from the University of California Boalt member of the State house of representatives 1931-1933, Hall School of Law in Berkeley in 1949; was admitted to serving as majority leader in 1933; resumed the practice the bar in 1950 and commenced the practice of law in Mar- of law 1933-1938; town chairman of Stratford, Conn. 1935- tinez, Calif.; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth 1937; Governor of Connecticut 1939-1940; unsuccessful can- and to the five succeeding Congresses, serving from January didate for reelection as Governor in 1940; again elected Gov- 3, 1955, until his death in Washington, D.C., on March ernor in 1942 and 1944, and served until his resignation 9, 1966; interment in Oakmont Memorial Park, Pleasant on December 25, 1946, having been elected United States Hill, Calif. Senator; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate BALDWIN, Joseph Clark, a Representative from New on November 5, 1946, to fill the vacancy in the term ending York; born in New York City, January 11, 1897; attended January 3, 1947, caused by the death of Francis T. Maloney, private schools; was graduated from St. Paul’s School, Con- and at the same time was elected for the term commencing cord, N.H., in 1916 and from Harvard University, Cam- January 3, 1947, and served from December 27, 1946, until bridge, Mass., in 1920; enlisted in the Navy in 1917 and his resignation on December 16, 1949; associate justice of was transferred to the Army in 1918, serving overseas as the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors; appointed chief a private in the Machine Gun Company of the Three Hun- justice in 1959 and served until his retirement in 1963; dred and Fifth Infantry; received a commission and com- chairman, Connecticut Constitutional Convention 1965; died manded the First Platoon, Machine Gun Company, Thirty- in Fairfield, Conn., October 4, 1986; interment in Indian ninth Infantry; officer of the French Legion of Honor; polit- Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Conn. ical reporter for the New York Tribune and later associate Bibliography: Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Baldwin, Ray- editor for the North Westchester Times 1922-1930; estab- mond. Let’s Go Into Politics. New York: Macmillan, 1952; Johnson, Curtis. lished a public relations firm in 1930; served as a member Raymond E. Baldwin: Connecticut Statesman. Chester, Conn.: Pequot of the board of aldermen of New York City 1929-1934; mem- Press, 1972. ber of the State senate 1934-1936; delegate to the New York BALDWIN, (son of , State constitutional convention in 1938; member of the New grandson of Roger Sherman, cousin of William Evarts), a York City council 1937-1941; elected as a Republican to the Senator from Connecticut; born in New Haven, Conn., Janu- Seventy-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the ary 4, 1793; attended the common schools and the Hopkins death of Kenneth F. Simpson; reelected to the Seventy- Grammar School; graduated from Yale College in 1811; stud- eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses and served from ied law in his father’s office and in 1812 entered the March 11, 1941, to January 3, 1947; unsuccessful candidate Litchfield Law School; admitted to the bar in 1814 and for renomination in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; became commenced practice in New Haven, Conn.; member, State a representative for United Dye and Chemical Corp., and senate 1837-1838; member, State house of representatives William Recht Co., Inc.; died in New York City, October 1840-1841; Governor of Connecticut 1844-1846; appointed 27, 1957; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. and subsequently elected as a Whig to the United States BALDWIN, Melvin Riley, a Representative from Min- Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jabez nesota; born near Chester, Windsor County, Vt., April 12, W. Huntington and served from November 11, 1847, to 1838; moved with his parents to Oshkosh, Winnebago Coun- March 3, 1851; member of the peace convention held in ty, Wis., in 1847; attended the common schools; entered Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devise means to Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., in 1855; studied law prevent the impending war; died in New Haven, Conn., Feb- but adopted civil engineering as a profession; engaged on ruary 19, 1863; interment in the Grove Street Cemetery. the Chicago & North Western Railway until April 19, 1861, Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- when he enlisted as a private in Company E, Second Regi- ography. ment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; commissioned captain BALDWIN, Simeon (father of Roger Sherman Baldwin), of his company; was captured at Gettysburg and confined a Representative from Connecticut; born in Norwich, Conn., in Libby Prison, Richmond, Va., at Macon, Ga., and at December 14, 1761; completed preparatory studies; was Charleston and Columbia, S.C., being prisoner for eighteen graduated from Yale College in 1781; was preceptor of the months; after the war engaged in operative railway work academy at Albany in 1782; tutor at Yale College from Octo- in Kansas; general superintendent for four years; moved ber 1783 until his resignation in September 1786; studied to Duluth, St. Louis County, Minn., in 1885; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March law; was admitted to the bar in 1786 and commenced prac- 3, 1895); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to tice in New Haven, Conn., the same year; elected city clerk the Fifty-fourth Congress; chairman of the Chippewa Indian in 1789 and served until June 1800; in 1790 was appointed Commission 1894-1897; went to Alaska in November 1897; clerk of the District and Circuit Courts of the United States died in Seattle, Wash., April 15, 1901; interment in Forest for the District of Connecticut and served until November Hill Cemetery, Duluth, Minn. 1803, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress; elected as a Federalist to the Eighth Congress (March 4, BALDWIN, Raymond Earl, a Senator from Connecticut; 1803-March 3, 1805); declined to be a candidate for reelec- born in Rye, Westchester County, N.Y., August 31, 1893; tion in 1804; again appointed to his former clerkship, but Biographies 603

was removed by Judge Edwards in 1806; associate judge and served from March 4, 1901, to March 3, 1903, when of the superior court and of the supreme court of errors he resigned to become Senator; unsuccessful candidate for 1806-1817; president of the board of commissioners that lo- reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress; elected to cated the Farmington Canal 1822-1830, when he resigned; the United States Senate on March 2, 1903, to fill the va- mayor of New Haven in 1826; died in New Haven, Conn., cancy in the term commencing March 4, 1899, caused by May 26, 1851; interment in the Grove Street Cemetery. the failure of the legislature to elect, and served from March 4, 1903, to March 3, 1905; resumed the practice of medicine BALDWIN, Tammy, a Representative from Wisconsin; at Brandywine Springs, Del.; again elected to the United born in Madison, Dane County, Wis., February 11, 1962; States Senate and served from March 4, 1919, to March graduated from Madison West High School, Madison, Wis., 3, 1925; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1924; 1980; A.B., Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 1984; J.D., chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Sixty-sixth Con- University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wis., 1989; gress), Committee on the District of Columbia (Sixty-seventh lawyer, private practice; Dane County, Wis., board of super- and Sixty-eighth Congresses); appointed a member of the visors, 1986-1994; member of the , rent commission of Washington, D.C., in 1925; resumed the 1993-1999; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Sixth practice of medicine; died in Faulkland, Del., October 18, and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1999- 1932; interment in St. James Cemetery, Stanton, Del. present). BALL, Thomas Henry, a Representative from Texas; BALL, Edward, a Representative from Ohio; born in born in Huntsville, Walker County, Tex., January 14, 1859; Fairfax County, near Falls Church, Va., November 6, 1811; attended private schools; was graduated from Austin Col- attended the village school; moved to Ohio and located near lege, Sherman, Tex., in 1876; studied law at the University Zanesville; engaged in agricultural pursuits; deputy sheriff of Virginia at Charlottesville; was admitted to the bar in of Muskingum County in 1837 and 1838 and sheriff 1839- 1886 and commenced practice in Huntsville, Tex.; mayor 1843; member of the State house of representatives 1845- of Huntsville 1887-1893; chairman of the Democratic execu- 1849; became editor of the Zanesville Courier in 1849; elect- tive committee of Walker County 1884-1896; delegate to all ed as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress and reelected State conventions from 1886 to 1924, with three exceptions; as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1892, 1853-March 3, 1857); chairman, Committee on Public Build- 1924, and 1928; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth ings and Grounds (Thirty-fourth Congress); was not a can- and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from didate for renomination in 1856; studied law; was admitted March 4, 1897, to November 16, 1903, when he resigned; to the bar in 1860 and commenced practice in Zanesville; resumed the practice of his profession; unsuccessful can- delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago didate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1914; in 1860; Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives general counsel for the State council of defense during the in the Thirty-seventh Congress 1861-1863; resumed the First World War; general counsel for the port commission practice of law; again a member of the State house of rep- of the Harbor and Ship Channel from May 1922 resentatives 1868-1870; accidentally killed by a railroad to August 1931, when he retired; died in Houston, Tex., train near Zanesville, Ohio, on November 22, 1872; inter- May 7, 1944; interment in Forest Park Cemetery. ment in Greenwood Cemetery. BALL, Thomas Raymond, a Representative from Con- BALL, Joseph Hurst, a Senator from ; born necticut; born in New York City, February 12, 1896; at- in Crookston, Polk County, Minn., November 3, 1905; at- tended the public schools, Anglo-Saxon School, Paris, tended the public schools; student at Antioch College, Yellow France, Heathcote School, Harrison, N.Y., and the Art Stu- Springs, Ohio 1922-1924, Eau Claire (Wis.) Normal School dents League, New York City; engaged as a designer in 1925, and the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1916; during the First World War served in the Depot Bat- 1926 and 1927; journalist and writer 1927-1940; appointed talion, Seventh New York Infantry, in 1917, and overseas on October 14, 1940, as a Republican to the United States with the Camouflage Section, Fortieth United States Engi- Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ernest neers, 1918-1919; after the war located in Old Lyme, Conn., Lundeen for the term ending January 2, 1943, and served and engaged in architectural pursuits; member of the board from October 14, 1940, to November 17, 1942, when a duly of education 1926-1938, and also served as selectman of elected successor qualified; elected in 1942 for the term com- Old Lyme, Conn.; served in the State house of representa- mencing January 3, 1943, and served from January 3, 1943, tives 1927-1937; elected as a Republican to the Seventy- to January 3, 1949; unsuccessful candidate for reelection sixth Congress (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1941); unsuc- in 1948; chairman, Joint Committee on Labor-Management cessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-sev- Relations (Eightieth Congress); resumed journalistic activi- enth Congress; resumed his former pursuits at Old Lyme, ties; shipping executive; lived on a farm near Front Royal, Conn.; died in Old Lyme, Conn., June 16, 1943; interment Va., until his death in Chevy Chase, Md., December 18, in Duck River Cemetery. 1993. Bibliography: Stuhler, Barbara. ‘‘Senator Joseph H. Ball: Pioneering BALL, William Lee, a Representative from Virginia; born Internationalist.’’ In Ten Men of Minnesota and American Foreign Policy, in Lancaster County, Va., January 2, 1781; received a liberal 1898-1968, pp. 123-44. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1973. schooling; served in the State house of delegates, 1805-1806 and 1810-1814 and in the State senate, 1814-1817; served BALL, Lewis Heisler, a Representative and a Senator as paymaster in the War of 1812 and was assigned to the from Delaware; born near Stanton, New Castle County, Del., Ninety-second Virginia Regiment; elected as a Republican September 21, 1861; attended the common schools and to the Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the three suc- Rugby Academy at Wilmington; graduated from Delaware ceeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1817, until College, Newark, Del., in 1882 and from the medical depart- his death in Washington, D.C., February 29, 1824; interment ment of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., in the Congressional Cemetery. in 1885; commenced the practice of medicine at Brandywine Springs, Del., in 1887; State treasurer of Delaware 1899- BALLANCE, Frank W., a Representative from North 1901; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Congress Carolina; born in Windsor, Bertie County, N. C., February 604 Biographical Directory

15, 1942; graduated from W.S. Etheridge High School, Wind- the Democratic county central committee 1905-1913; elected sor, N. C., 1959; B.S., North Carolina Central University, as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913- Durham, N.C., 1963; North Carolina Central Law School, March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 Durham, N.C., 1965; North Carolina National Guard, 1968; to the Sixty-fourth Congress; mayor of Millstadt six years; North Carolina Reserves, 1968-1971; lawyer, private prac- resumed agricultural and industrial pursuits at Millstadt, tice; librarian; professor, State College, 1965- Ill., until his death there August 22, 1943; interment in 1966; member of the North Carolina state house of rep- Mount Evergreen Cemetery. resentatives, 1982-1985; member of the North Carolina state senate, 1989-2002; elected as a Democrat to the One Hun- BANDSTRA, Bert Andrew, a Representative from Iowa; dred Eighth Congress and served until resignation June 11, born in Monroe County, Iowa, January 25, 1922; attended 2004 (January 3, 2003- June 11, 2004). New Sharon High School; United States Navy, 1942-1945; graduated from Central College, Pella, Iowa, 1950; grad- BALLENGER, Cass (great-great-grandson of Lewis uated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., Cass), a Representative from North Carolina; born in Hick- 1953; lawyer, private practice; Marion County attorney, ory, Catawaba County, N.C., December 6, 1926; graduated 1955-1959; staff, United States Representative Neal Smith from Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Va., 1944; attended of Iowa, 1959-1964; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1944-1945; ninth Congress (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1967); unsuc- B.A., Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., 1948; United States cessful candidate for reelection to the Ninetieth Congress Naval Air Corps, 1944-1945; member of the North Carolina in 1966 and the Ninety-first in 1968; died on October 23, state house of representatives, 1974-1976; member of the 1995, in Pella, Iowa; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Pella, North Carolina state senate, 1976-1986; elected as a Repub- Iowa. lican to the Ninety-ninth Congress, by special election, to BANISTER, John, a Delegate from Virginia; born at fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States ‘‘Hatcher’s Run,’’ near Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Va., Representative James Broyhill, and at the same time elected December 26, 1734; attended a private school at Wakefield, to the One Hundredth Congress and reelected to the eight England, and was graduated in law from the Temple in succeeding Congresses (November 4, 1986- January 3, 2005); London; returned to Virginia and commenced the practice not a candidate for reelection in 2004. of law in Petersburg; also engaged as a planter; member BALLENTINE, John Goff, a Representative from Ten- of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1765, 1766-1774, and nessee; born in Pulaski, Giles County, Tenn., May 20, 1825; 1775; member of the conventions of 1775 and 1776; served in the State house of delegates in 1776, 1777, and 1781- was graduated from Wurtemberg Academy in 1841, from 1783; Member of the in 1778; one the University of Nashville in 1845, and from the law de- of the framers and signers of the Articles of Confederation; partment of Harvard University in 1848; was a member during the Revolutionary War served as major and lieuten- of the faculty of Livingston Law School in New York; com- ant colonel of the Virginia Militia; died on his estate, menced the practice of law in Pulaski; moved to ‘‘Hatcher’s Run,’’ near Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Va., about 1854; continued the practice of law and engaged in on September 30, 1788; interment in the family burying agricultural pursuits; settled in Memphis, Tenn., in 1860; ground on his estate. served as a colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; returned to Pulaski, Tenn.; elected as a Democrat BANKHEAD, John Hollis (father of John Hollis to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, Bankhead II and William Brockman Bankhead, and grand- 1883-March 3, 1887); declined to be a candidate for renomi- father of Walter Will Bankhead), a Representative and a nation in 1886; retired from active pursuits; died in Pulaski, Senator from Alabama; born in , Marion (now Tenn., on November 23, 1915; interment in the New Pulaski Lamar) County, Ala., September 13, 1842; attended the com- Cemetery. mon schools; planter; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War as captain in the Alabama Infantry; member, BALLOU, Latimer Whipple, a Representative from State house of representatives 1865-1867 and again in 1880 Rhode Island; born in Cumberland, R.I., March 1, 1812; and 1881; member, State senate 1876-1877; warden of the attended the public schools and the local academies in his State penitentiary at Wetumpka 1881-1885; moved to Fay- native town; moved to Cambridge, Mass., in 1828 and ette, Ala., in 1885 and resumed planting; in 1912 moved learned the art of printing at the University Press; was to Jasper, Ala.; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and instrumental in establishing the Cambridge Press in 1835 to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1887-March and continued in the printing business until 1842, when 3, 1907); chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and he moved to Woonsocket, R.I.; engaged in banking in 1850; Grounds (Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses); unsuc- was active in the organization of the Republican Party in cessful candidate for renomination in 1906; appointed a 1856; delegate to the Republican National Convention at member of the Inland Waterways Commission in 1907; ap- Philadelphia in 1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty- pointed and subsequently elected to the United States Sen- fourth, Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, ate in 1907 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John 1875-March 3, 1881); declined to be a candidate for renomi- T. Morgan; reelected in 1912 and 1918 and served from nation in 1880; engaged in his former business pursuits June 18, 1907, until his death in Washington, D.C., March until his death in Woonsocket, Providence County, R.I., May 1, 1920; chairman, Committee on Standards, Weights, and 9, 1900; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. Measures (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), BALTZ, William Nicolas, a Representative from Illinois; Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Interior born in Millstadt, St. Clair County, Ill., February 5, 1860; (Sixty-sixth Congress); interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Jas- attended the public schools; engaged in agricultural pur- per, Ala. suits, milling, and banking; member of the Millstadt Board Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- of Education and served as president 1892-1917; member ography; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for John Hollis Bankhead. 66th of the St. Clair County Board of Supervisors 1897-1913, Cong., 3rd sess., 1920-1921. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, serving as presiding officer from 1908 to 1911; member of 1921. Biographies 605

BANKHEAD, John Hollis II (son of John Hollis BANKS, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born Bankhead, brother of William Brockman Bankhead, and fa- near Lewisburg, Juniata County, Pa., October 17, 1793; re- ther of Walter Will Bankhead), a Senator from Alabama; ceived a liberal education; studied law; was admitted to born on a farm near Old Moscow, Lamar County, Ala., July the bar and commenced practice in Juniata County in 1819; 8, 1872; attended the public schools; graduated from the moved to Mercer County and continued the practice of law; University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1891 and from the elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-second, law department of Georgetown University, Washington, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Congresses and served D.C., in 1893; admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced from March 4, 1831, until his resignation in 1836; judge practice in Jasper, Ala.; served in the Alabama National of the Berks judicial district from 1836 until he resigned Guard with rank of major 1901-1903; member of the State to accept a State position; State treasurer of Pennsylvania house of representatives 1904-1905; president of the in 1847; resumed the practice of law in Reading, Pa., where Bankhead Coal Co. 1911-1925; trustee of the University of he died April 3, 1864; interment in Charles Evans Cemetery. Alabama 1917-1919 and 1931-1946; elected as a Democrat BANKS, Linn, a Representative from Virginia; born in to the United States Senate in 1930; reelected in 1936 and Madison (then Culpeper) County, Va., January 23, 1784; 1942 and served from March 4, 1931, until his death in studied law; was admitted to the bar in Madison County the United States Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md., on June April 10, 1809; member of the Virginia house of delegates, 12, 1946; chairman, Committee on Irrigation and Reclama- 1812-1838, and served as speaker, 1817-1838; elected as a tion (Seventy-fifth through Seventy-ninth Congresses); inter- Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy ment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Ala. caused by the resignation of John M. Patton; reelected to Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Key, Jack B. ‘‘John H. Bankhead, Jr. of Alabama: The Conservative as Reformer.’’ Ph.D. disserta- the Twenty-sixth Congress and served from April 28, 1838, tion, Johns Hopkins University, 1966; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services to March 3, 1841; presented credentials as a Member-elect for John Hollis Bankhead, 2d. 80th Cong., 1st sess., 1947. Washington, to the Twenty-seventh Congress and served from March 4, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1949. 1841, until December 6, 1841, when he was succeeded by William Smith, who contested the election; was not a can- BANKHEAD, Walter Will (son of John Hollis Bankhead didate for renomination in 1842; resumed the practice of 2d, grandson of John Hollis Bankhead, and nephew of Wil- law; served as a colonel in the Virginia Militia; was drowned liam Brockman Bankhead), a Representative from Alabama; while attempting to ford the Conway River near Wolftown, born in Jasper, Walker County, Ala., July 21, 1897; attended Madison County, Va., January 13, 1842; interment in the the public schools; was graduated from Marion (Ala.) Mili- family burying ground on his estate, Vale Evergreen, near tary Institute in 1916, from the University of Alabama at Graves Mill, Madison County, Va. Tuscaloosa in 1919, and from the law department of the same university in 1920; was admitted to the bar in 1920 BANKS, Nathaniel Prentice, a Representative from and commenced practice in Jasper, Ala.; delegate to the Massachusetts; born in Waltham, Mass., January 30, 1816; Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1940; elected attended the common schools; a machinist by trade; editor as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress and served of a weekly paper in Waltham, Mass.; clerk in the custom- from January 3, 1941, until February 1, 1941, when he house in Boston, Mass.; studied law; was admitted to the resigned; resumed the practice of law; chairman of the board Suffolk County bar and commenced practice in Boston; mem- of Bankhead Mining Co., Inc., and Bankhead Development ber of the State house of representatives 1849-1852, for two Co., Inc.; president of Mammoth Packing Co. and Bankhead years serving as speaker; member of the State constitutional Broadcasting Co., Inc.; vice chairman, board of directors, convention of 1853; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty- First National Bank of Jasper; was a resident of Jasper, third Congress, as the candidate of the American Party to Ala., until his death in November 1988. the Thirty-fourth Congress, and as a Republican to the Thir- ty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1853, until he BANKHEAD, William Brockman (son of John Hollis resigned December 24, 1857, to become Governor; Speaker Bankhead, brother of John Hollis Bankhead 2d, and uncle of the House of Representatives (Thirty-fourth Congress); of Walter Will Bankhead), a Representative from Alabama; Governor of Massachusetts from January 1858, until Janu- born in Moscow, Lamar County, Ala., April 12, 1874; at- ary 1861; moved to Chicago, Ill.; vice president of the Illinois tended the country schools; was graduated from the Univer- Central Railroad; entered the Union Army as a major gen- sity of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1893 and from the Georgetown eral of Volunteers May 16, 1861; honorably mustered out University Law School at Washington, D.C., in 1895; was August 24, 1865; returned to Massachusetts; elected as a admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice Union Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress to fill the in Huntsville, Ala.; member of the State house of representa- vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel W. Gooch; re- tives in 1900 and 1901; city attorney of Huntsville, 1898- elected as a Republican to the Fortieth, Forty-first, and 1902; moved to Jasper, Walker County, Ala., in 1905 and Forty-second Congresses and served from December 4, 1865, continued the practice of law; solicitor of the fourteenth judi- to March 3, 1873; chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs cial circuit of Alabama, 1910-1914; unsuccessful candidate (Thirty-ninth through Forty-second Congresses); unsuccess- for nomination to the Sixty-fourth Congress in 1914; elected ful Liberal and Democratic candidate for reelection in 1872 as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and to the eleven succeeding to the Forty-third Congress; member of the State senate Congresses (March 4, 1917-September 15, 1940); chairman, in 1874; elected as an Independent to the Forty-fourth Con- Committee on Rules (Seventy-third Congress); majority lead- gress and as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress er (Seventy-fourth Congress), Speaker of the House of Rep- (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); unsuccessful candidate for resentatives (Seventy-fourth to Seventy-sixth Congresses); renomination in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress; appointed delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1940; United States marshal on March 11, 1879, and served until died on September 15, 1940, in Washington, D.C.; funeral April 23, 1888; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first services were held in the Hall of the House of Representa- Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); chairman, Com- tives; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Ala. mittee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior Bibliography: Heacock, Walter J. ‘‘William Brockman Bankhead: A Bi- (Fifty-first Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- ography.’’ Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1952. tion in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; died in Waltham, 606 Biographical Directory

Middlesex County, Mass., September 1, 1894; interment in in Ironton, Mo.; general counsel for Department of Health, Grove Hill Cemetery. Education, and Welfare, Washington, D.C., from April 11, Bibliography: Hollandsworth, James G. Pretense of Glory: The Life of 1953, until January 20, 1961; retired; died in Cape General Nathaniel P. Banks. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Girardeau, Mo., May 12, 1970; interment in New Masonic Press, 1998. Cemetery, Potosi, Mo. BANNING, Henry Blackstone, a Representative from BARBER, Hiram, Jr., a Representative from Illinois; Ohio; born in Bannings Mills, Ohio, November 10, 1836; born in Queensbury, Warren County, N.Y., March 24, 1835; attended the Clinton district school, Mount Vernon Acad- moved to Horicon, Dodge County, Wis., in 1846; attended emy, and Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio; studied law; was the University of Wisconsin at Madison; studied law in Al- admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced practice in bany, N.Y.; was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced Mount Vernon, Ohio; during the Civil War enlisted April practice at Juneau, Wis.; prosecuting attorney of Jefferson 1861 in the Union Army as a private; commissioned captain County, Wis., in 1861 and 1862; assistant attorney general of the Fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, June 5, of Wisconsin in 1865 and 1866; moved to Chicago, Ill., and 1861; colonel of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volun- resumed the practice of law in 1866; elected as a Republican teer Infantry, June 25, 1862; honorably mustered out Octo- to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); ber 4, 1862; commissioned lieutenant colonel of the One unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1880; receiver Hundred and Twenty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infan- of the land office at Mitchell, S.Dak., 1881-1888; returned try, January 1, 1863; transferred to the One Hundred and to Chicago and continued the practice of law; served as Twenty-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, April 5, master in chancery of the Cook County Superior Court from 1863; colonel November 10, 1863; brevetted brigadier gen- 1891 to 1914; retired from public life and active business eral and major general of Volunteers March 13, 1865; re- pursuits; died at Lake Geneva, Wis., August 5, 1924; inter- signed January 1, 1865; member of the State house of rep- ment in Juneau Cemetery, Juneau, Wis. resentatives in 1866 and 1867; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1869 and resumed the practice of law; elected as a Liberal BARBER, Isaac Ambrose, a Representative from Mary- Republican to the Forty-third Congress and as a Democrat land; born near Salem, Salem County, N.J., January 26, to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1852; attended the common schools, and studied medicine 1873-March 3, 1879); chairman, Committee on Military Af- in Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., from fairs (Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses); unsuccessful which he was graduated in 1872; commenced practice in candidate for renomination in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Con- Woodstown, N.J.; moved to Easton, Talbot County, Md., in gress, and for election in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Con- 1873 and continued the practice of medicine for fifteen years; gress; resumed the practice of law; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, engaged in the milling business; member of the State house December 10, 1881; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery. of delegates in 1895; president of the Farmers & Merchants’ National Bank of Easton; elected as a Republican to the BANNON, Henry Towne, a Representative from Ohio; Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); resumed born near Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, June 5, 1867; the milling business and also engaged in agricultural pur- attended the public schools of Portsmouth, Ohio State Uni- suits; chairman of the Republican State central committee versity at Columbus in 1885 and 1886, and was graduated 1900-1904; died in Easton, Md., March 1, 1909; interment from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1889; in Spring Hill Cemetery. studied law; was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1891 and practiced in Portsmouth, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Scioto BARBER, Joel Allen, a Representative from Wisconsin; County 1897-1902; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth born in Georgia (near St. Albans), Franklin County, Vt., and Sixtieth Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1909); was January 17, 1809; attended the common schools, Georgia not a candidate for renomination in 1908; resumed the prac- Academy, and the University of , Burlington, Vt.; tice of law; delegate to the Republican National Conventions studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1834 in Prince in 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, and 1940; served as a director Georges County, Md., where he was teaching school, and of the First National Bank, National Bank of Portsmouth, commenced practice in Fairfield, Vt.; moved to Wisconsin Oak Hill Savings Bank, and the Selby Shoe Co.; also en- in 1837 and settled in Lancaster, Grant County, and contin- gaged in literary pursuits; died in Portsmouth, Ohio, Sep- ued the practice of his profession; county clerk for four years tember 6, 1950; interment in Greenlawn Cemetery. and district attorney three terms; member of the first con- stitutional convention of Wisconsin in 1846; elected to the BANTA, Parke Monroe, a Representative from Missouri; State assembly in 1852, 1853, 1863, and 1864, serving as born in Berryman, Crawford County, Mo., November 21, speaker in 1864; member of the State senate in 1856 and 1891; attended the public schools, and William Jewell Col- 1857; founded Lancaster Academy; elected as a Republican lege at Liberty, Mo.; was graduated from Northwestern Uni- to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, versity Law School at Evanston-Chicago, Ill., in 1914; was 1871-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination admitted to the bar in 1913 and practiced at Potosi, Mo., in 1874; resumed the practice of law; died in Lancaster, 1914-1925 and at Ironton, Mo., 1925-1941; prosecuting attor- Wis., June 17, 1881; interment in Hillside Cemetery. ney of Washington County, Mo., in 1917 and 1918; during the First World War served in the United States Army BARBER, Laird Howard, a Representative from Penn- as a private and through the ranks to first lieutenant from sylvania; born on a farm near Mifflinburg, Union County, April 1918 to August 1919; member of the board of trustees Pa., October 25, 1848; prepared for college in the Mifflinburg of Arcadia, Mo., in 1928 and 1929; member of Ironton-Arca- Academy, and was graduated from Lafayette College, Eas- dia School Board in 1932 and 1933; administrator of the ton, Pa., in 1871; taught school at Mount Carmel and was Missouri State Social Security Commission 1941-1945; elect- principal of the Mauch Chunk Public Schools from 1875 ed as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress (January 3, to 1880; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Carbon 1947-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for reelection County June 20, 1881, and commenced practice at Mauch in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress and for election in 1950 Chunk; elected in 1890 a director of the Mauch Chunk to the Eighty-second Congress; resumed the practice of law School Board and served as president and treasurer; also Biographies 607

served as secretary of the town council; unsuccessful can- death of Richard Brent; reelected in 1821 and served from didate for election in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; elected January 2, 1815, to March 7, 1825, when he resigned to as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899- accept a Cabinet portfolio; served as President pro tempore March 3, 1901); was not a candidate for renomination in of the Senate during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Con- 1900 to the Fifth-seventh Congress; resumed the practice gresses; chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations (Fif- of law in Mauch Chunk; elected president judge of the fifty- teenth, Sixteenth, and Eighteenth Congresses), Committee sixth judicial district of Pennsylvania in 1913; reelected in on the District of Columbia (Seventeenth Congress); ap- 1923 and served from January 5, 1914, until his death in pointed Secretary of War by President Mauch Chunk, Carbon County, Pa., February 16, 1928; in- and served from March 7, 1825, to May 26, 1828, when terment in Evergreen Cemetery, East Mauch Chunk, Pa. he resigned to accept a diplomatic position; United States Minister to England from May 26, 1828, to September 23, BARBER, Levi, a Representative from Ohio; born in 1829; chairman of the Whig National Convention in 1839; Simsbury, Hartford County, Conn., October 16, 1777; moved founder of the Orange County Humane Society, established to Ohio; was a surveyor in the employ of the Federal Gov- for the advancement of education; died in Barboursville, Or- ernment; member of the State house of representatives in ange County, Va., June 7, 1842; interment in the family 1806; was commissioned receiver of the United States land cemetery. office in Marietta, Ohio, on April 1, 1807; aide to Governor Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Lowery, Charles D. Meigs during the War of 1812; elected as a Republican to , a Jeffersonian Republican. University, AL: University of the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1819); un- Alabama Press, 1984. successful candidate for reelection in 1818 to the Sixteenth Congress; elected to the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, BARBOUR, John Strode (father of John Strode 1821-March 3, 1823); unsuccessful candidate for reelection Barbour, Jr., cousin of James Barbour and Philip Pendleton in 1822 to the Eighteenth Congress; clerk of the court of Barbour), a Representative from Virginia; born at common pleas and the court of Washington County; justice ‘‘Fleetwood,’’ near Brandy Station, Culpeper County, Va., of the peace; president of the Bank of Marietta; died in August 8, 1790; attended private schools; was graduated Harmar (now a part of Marietta), Ohio, April 23, 1833; from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., interment in Harmar Cemetery. in 1808; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1811 and commenced practice in Culpeper, Va.; served in the War BARBER, Noyes (uncle of Edwin Barbour Morgan and of 1812 as aide-de-camp to General Madison; member of Christopher Morgan), a Representative from Connecticut; the State house of delegates 1813-1816, 1820-1823, 1833, born in Groton, New London County, Conn., April 28, 1781; and 1834; elected to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Con- attended the common schools; engaged in mercantile pur- gresses and elected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth suits; major of the Eighth Connecticut Regiment in the War through Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1823-March of 1812; detailed to defend the coast towns during the block- 3, 1833); was not a candidate for renomination in 1832; ade by the British Fleet; member of the State house of member of the Virginia constitutional conventions in 1829 representatives in 1818; elected to the Seventeenth and to and 1830; chairman of the Democratic National Convention the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, in 1852; resumed the practice of law; died on his estate, 1835); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the ‘‘Fleetwood,’’ near Culpeper, Culpeper County, Va., on Janu- Twenty-fourth Congress; resumed mercantile pursuits; mem- ary 12, 1855; interment in the family burying ground on ber of all Whig State conventions from 1836; died in Groton, his estate. Conn., January 3, 1844; interment in Starr Cemetery. BARBOUR, John Strode, Jr. (son of the John Strode BARBOUR, Henry Ellsworth, a Representative from Barbour), a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; California; born in Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., born at ‘‘Catalpa,’’ near Culpeper, Culpeper County, Va., March 8, 1877; attended the public schools of his native December 29, 1820; attended the common schools and grad- city, the local Free Academy at Ogdensburg, Union College uated from the law department of the University of Virginia at Schenectady, N.Y., and the law department of George at Charlottesville; admitted to the bar in 1841 and com- Washington University, Washington, D.C.; was admitted to menced practice in Culpeper; member of the State house the New York bar in 1901; moved to Fresno, Fresno County, of delegates 1847-1851; president of the Orange & Alexan- Calif., in 1902 and engaged in the practice of law; elected dria Railroad Co. 1852-1881; elected as a Democrat to the as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Forty-seventh, and the two succeeding Congresses (March Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful 4, 1881-March 3, 1887); chairman, Committee on the District candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Con- of Columbia (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses); de- gress; resumed the practice of his profession in Fresno, clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1886; elected Calif., where he died on March 21, 1945; interment in Bel- as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from mont Memorial Cemetery. March 4, 1889, until his death in Washington, D.C., May 14, 1892; interment in the burial ground at ‘‘Poplar Hill,’’ BARBOUR, James (brother of Philip Pendleton Barbour Prince Georges County, Md. and cousin of John Strode Barbour), a Senator from Vir- Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; U.S. Congress. Memo- ginia; born at ‘‘Frascati,’’ near Gordonsville, Orange County, rial Services for John S. Barbour, Jr. 52nd Cong., 2nd sess., 1892-1893. Va., June 10, 1775; attended the common schools; deputy Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1893; Quinn, James Thom- as. ‘‘Senator John S. Barbour, Jr. and the Restoration of Virginia Democ- sheriff of Orange County; studied law; admitted to the bar racy, 1883-1892.’’ Master’s thesis, University of Virginia, 1966. in 1794 at Orange Court House; served several terms in the Virginia house of delegates between 1796 and 1812, BARBOUR, Lucien, a Representative from Indiana; born serving as speaker from 1809 to 1812; Governor of Virginia in Canton, Hartford County, Conn., March 4, 1811; was 1812-1814; elected as an Anti-Democrat and State Rights graduated from Amherst (Mass.) College in 1837; moved candidate to the United States Senate in 1814 for the term to Indiana the same year and settled in Madison, Jefferson commencing March 4, 1815; subsequently elected to fill the County; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1815, caused by the menced practice in Indianapolis, Ind., in 1839; acted a num- 608 Biographical Directory

ber of times as arbitrator between the State of Indiana BARCA, Peter William, a Representative from Wis- and private corporations; appointed United States district consin; born in Kenosha, Wis., August 7, 1955; graduated attorney for the district of Indiana by President Polk; mem- from Mary D. Bradford High School; B.S., University of Wis- ber of the commission to codify the laws of Indiana in 1852; consin, , 1977, and M.A., 1982; graduate work elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth Congress at Harvard University; employment specialist; teacher of (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); was not a candidate for emotionally disturbed; director of camp for handicapped chil- renomination in 1856; affiliated with the Republican Party dren; distribution manager; member, Wisconsin State assem- in 1860; practiced law in Indianapolis, Ind., until his death bly, 1985-1993; Kenosha County Democratic Party, chair; in that city on July 19, 1880; interment in Crown Hill Ceme- elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Third Congress, tery. May 4, 1993, by special election to fill the vacancy created BARBOUR, Philip Pendleton (brother of James by the resignation of Leslie Aspin and served from May Barbour and cousin of John Strode Barbour), a Representa- 4, 1993, to January 3, 1995; unsuccessful candidate for re- tive from Virginia; born at ‘‘Frascati,’’ near Gordonsville, election to the One Hundred Fourth Congress. Orange County, Va., May 25, 1783; attended common and private schools; was graduated from the college of William BARCHFELD, , a Representative from and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in 1799; studied law; was Pennsylvania; born in Pittsburgh, Pa., May 18, 1863; at- admitted to the bar in 1800 and commenced practice in tended Pittsburgh Central High School, Pittsburgh, Pa; Bardstown, Ky.; returned to Virginia in 1801 and practiced graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., law in Gordonsville, Orange County; member of the State 1884; physician; hospital executive; member of the common house of delegates 1812-1814; elected as a Republican to council of Pittsburgh, Pa., 1886-1887; member, Republican the Thirteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the State committee; unsuccessful candidate for election to the death of John Dawson; reelected to the Fourteenth and to Fifty-eighth Congress in 1902; elected as a Republican to the four succeeding Congresses and served from September the Fifty-ninth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 19, 1814, to March 3, 1825; Speaker of the House of Rep- 4, 1905-March 3, 1917); unsuccessful candidate for reelection resentatives (Seventeenth Congress); was not a candidate to the Sixty-fifth Congress in 1916; delegate to the peace for renomination in 1824; offered the professorship of law congress at Brussels in 1905; member of the commission in the University of Virginia in 1825, but declined; appointed to the Philippine Islands, 1910; member of the Panama a judge of the general court of Virginia and served for two Canal Commission, 1912; died on January 28, 1922, in the years, resigning in 1827; elected to the Twentieth Congress Knickerbocker Theater disaster in Washington, D.C.; inter- and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress ment in South Side Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa. and served from March 4, 1827, until his resignation on October 15, 1830; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary BARCIA, James A., a Representative from Michigan; (Twentieth Congress); president of the Virginia constitu- born in Bay City, Bay County, Mich., February 25, 1952; tional convention in 1829; appointed by President Jackson, B.A., Saginaw Valley State College, University Center, June 1, 1830, judge of the United States Circuit Court for Mich., 1974; staff assistant to United States Senator Philip the Eastern District of Virginia, declining the chancellorship A. Hart of Michigan, 1971; community service coordinator, and the post of attorney general; refused nominations for Michigan Blood Center, 1974-1975; administrative assistant judge of the court of appeals, for Governor, and for United States Senator; appointed Associate Justice of the United to Michigan state representative Donald J. Albosta, 1975- States Supreme Court and served from March 15, 1836, 1976; member of the Michigan state house of representa- until his death in Washington, D.C., February 25, 1841; tives, 1977-1983; member of the Michigan state senate, interment in Congressional Cemetery. 1983-1993, 2003 to present; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Third and to the four succeeding Congresses BARBOUR, William Warren, a Senator from New Jer- (January 3, 1993-January 3, 2003); not a candidate for re- sey; born in Monmouth Beach, Monmouth County, N.J., July election to the One Hundred Eighth Congress in 2002. 31, 1888; attended the public schools and graduated from the Browning School, New York City, N.Y., in 1906; also BARCLAY, Charles Frederick, a Representative from attended Princeton University; amateur heavyweight boxing Pennsylvania; born in Owego, Tioga County, N.Y., May 9, champion of the United States and in 1910 and 1844; moved with his parents to Pennsylvania in 1845; at- 1911; member of the New York National Guard for ten tended Painted Post (N.Y.) High School and Coudersport years, serving on the Mexican border in 1916, attained the (Pa.) Academy; taught school for several years; during the rank of captain; member of the Rumson (N.J.) Borough Civil War enlisted as a private in Company K, One Hundred Council in 1922; served as mayor of Rumson, N.J. 1923- and Forty-ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 1928; moved to Locust, Monmouth County, N.J., in 1930; in 1862 and served until 1865, when he was mustered out engaged in the thread manufacturing business and other with the rank of captain; attended Belfast Seminary, New industrial enterprises; appointed on December 1, 1931, and York, and subsequently studied law at the University of subsequently elected on November 8, 1932, as a Republican Michigan at Ann Arbor, but never practiced; with an elder to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by brother was engaged extensively in the lumber business in the death of Dwight W. Morrow and served from December 1, 1931, to January 3, 1937; unsuccessful candidate for re- Sinnamahoning, Pa.; delegate to the Republican National election in 1936; resumed his former pursuits; member of Convention at Philadelphia in 1900; elected as a Republican the New Jersey Unemployment Compensation Commission to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses (March 4, 1907- in 1937; again elected on November 8, 1938, to the United March 3, 1911); was not a candidate for renomination in States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress; engaged in business in of A. Harry Moore; reelected in 1940, and served from No- Washington, D.C., until his death March 9, 1914; interment vember 9, 1938, until his death in Washington, D.C., on in Wyside Cemetery, Sinnamahoning, Cameron County, Pa. November 22, 1943; interment in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, N.J. BARCLAY, David, a Representative from Pennsylvania; Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for William W. born in Punxsutawney, Jefferson County, Pa., in 1823; at- Barbour. 78th Cong., 2nd sess., 1944. Washington, D.C.: Government tended Washington (now Washington and Jefferson) College, Printing Office, 1946. Washington, Pa.; studied law in Pittsburgh; was admitted Biographies 609

to the bar and practiced in Punxsutawney, Brookville, and BARHAM, John All, a Representative from California; Kittanning, Pa.; one of the editors and publishers of the born on a farm in Cass County, Mo., July 17, 1843; moved Pittsburgh Union and Legal Journal 1850-1855; while a resi- to California in 1849 with his parents, who settled in Wood- dent of Brookville was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty- land; attended the common schools and Hesperian College fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); resumed in Woodland, Calif.; taught in the public schools 1864-1876; the practice of law; died in Freeport, Armstrong County, studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1865 and com- Pa., September 10, 1889; interment in Freeport Cemetery. menced practice in Watsonville, San Francisco, and Santa BARD, David, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born Rosa; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, at ‘‘Carroll’s Delight,’’ Adams County, Pa., in 1744; was and Fifty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1901); graduated from Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1773; chairman, Committee on Mileage (Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth studied theology and was licensed to preach by the Donegal Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1900; Presbytery in 1777; was ordained to the Presbyterian min- engaged in the practice of law until his death in Santa istry at Lower Conotheague in 1779; missionary in Virginia Rosa, Sonoma County, Calif., January 22, 1926; interment and west of the Allegheny Mountains; pastor at Bedford, in Rural Cemetery. Pa., 1786-1789, and later at Frankstown (now Hollidaysburg), Blair County, Pa.; elected as a Republican BARING, Walter Stephan, Jr., a Representative from to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses (March 4, 1795-March Nevada; born in Goldfield, Esmeralda County, Nev., Sep- 3, 1799); elected to the Eighth and to the six succeeding tember 9, 1911; graduated from Reno High School in 1929 Congresses and served from March 4, 1803, until his death and from the University of Nevada at Reno, B.A. and B.S., in Alexandria, Huntingdon County, Pa., March 12, 1815; 1934; holder of high school teacher’s certificate; elected interment in Sinking Valley Cemetery, near Arch Spring, chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of Washoe Blair County, Pa. County, Nev., in 1936; elected assemblyman from Washoe County to the State assembly in 1936, reelected in 1942, BARD, Thomas Robert, a Senator from California; born and served until his resignation to enlist in the United in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pa., December 8, 1841; States Navy; served in the Navy from September 26, 1942, attended the common schools; graduated from the Cham- bersburg Academy in 1858; studied law, but before com- until May 31, 1945; engaged in the furniture business at pleting his studies secured a position with the Pennsylvania Reno, Nev., 1945-1948; member of the Reno City Council Railroad Co., later becoming assistant to the superintendent in 1947 and 1948; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty- of the Cumberland Valley Railroad; engaged in the grain first and Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1949-Janu- business at Hagerstown, Md.; during the early part of the ary 3, 1953); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 Civil War served as a volunteer Union scout during the to the Eighty-third Congress; delegate to the Democratic invasions of Maryland and Pennsylvania by the Confed- National Conventions in 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968; erates; moved to Ventura County, Calif., in 1864; member engaged in the insurance business; unsuccessful candidate of the board of supervisors of Santa Barbara County 1868- for election in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress; elected 1873; laid out the town of Hueneme; one of the commis- to the Eighty-fifth and to the seven succeeding Congresses sioners appointed to organize Ventura County in 1871; direc- (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1973); unsuccessful candidate tor of the State board of agriculture 1886-1887; elected as for renomination in 1972; returned to his home in Reno, a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy Nev.; died in Los Angeles, Calif., July 13, 1975; cremated; in the term beginning March 4, 1899, and served from Feb- ashes entombed in a mausoleum at Masonic Memorial Gar- ruary 7, 1900, to March 3, 1905; unsuccessful candidate dens, Reno, Nev. for reelection in 1904; chairman, Committee on Fisheries (Fifty-seventh Congress), Committee on Irrigation (Fifty- BARKER, Abraham Andrews, a Representative from eighth Congress); died at his home, ‘‘Berylwood,’’ in Hue- Pennsylvania; born in Lovell, Oxford County, Maine, March neme, Ventura County, Calif., March 5, 1915; interment in 30, 1816; attended the common schools; engaged in agricul- the family cemetery on his estate. tural pursuits and also in the shook business; moved to Bibliography: Hutchinson, William Henry. Oil, Land, and Politics: The Carrolltown, Pa., in 1854 and to Ebensburg, Cambria Coun- California Career of Thomas R. Bard. 2 vols. Norman: University of Okla- ty, Pa., where he continued the shook business; also engaged homa Press, 1965. in the mercantile business in 1858 and later in the lumber BARDEN, Graham Arthur, a Representative from North business; delegate to the Republican National Convention Carolina; born in Turkey Township, Sampson County, N.C., in 1860; served in Company E, Fourth Regiment, Pennsyl- September 25, 1896; moved to Burgaw, Pender County, N.C., vania Emergency Troops, during the Civil War; elected as in 1908; attended the public schools; during the First World a Union Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March War served as a seaman in the United States Navy in 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); unsuccessful candidate for renomi- 1918 and 1919; was graduated from the law department nation in 1866 and for election as a Republican in 1872 of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1920; to the Forty-third Congress; reengaged in the lumber and was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced shook business until 1880, when he retired from active pur- practice in New Bern, N.C.; teacher in the New Bern (N.C.) suits; died in Altoona, Pa., while on a visit for medical High School in 1920; judge of the county court of Craven treatment March 18, 1898; interment in Lloyd Cemetery, County, N.C., 1920-1924; member of the State house of rep- resentatives in 1933; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy- Ebensburg, Pa. fourth and to the twelve succeeding Congresses (January BARKER, David, Jr., a Representative from New Hamp- 3, 1935-January 3, 1961); chairman, Committee on Edu- shire; born in Stratham, N.H., January 8, 1797; attended cation (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses), Com- Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., and was graduated mittee on Education and Labor (Eighty-first, Eighty-second, and Eighty-fourth through Eighty-sixth Congresses); was not from Harvard University in 1815; studied law; was admitted a candidate for renomination in 1960; died in New Bern, to the bar in 1819 and commenced practice in Rochester, N.C., January 29, 1967; interment in Cedar Grove Cemetery. N.H.; member of the State house of representatives in 1823, Bibliography: Puryear, Elmer L. Graham A. Barden, Conservative 1825, and 1826; elected to the Twentieth Congress (March Carolina Congressman. Buie’s Creek, N.C.: Campbell University Press, 4, 1827-March 3, 1829); resumed the practice of law; was 1979. an original member of the New Hampshire Historical Soci- 610 Biographical Directory

ety; died in Rochester, N.H., April 1, 1834; interment in 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1886; the Old Rochester Cemetery. engaged in agricultural pursuits in Yazoo County; died in Yazoo City, Miss., February 17, 1893; interment in Green- BARKER, Joseph, a Representative from Massachusetts; wood Cemetery, Jackson, Miss. born in Branford, Conn., October 19, 1751; attended the Bibliography: Peterson, Owen M. ‘‘Ethelbert Barksdale in the Demo- common schools in Branford, Harvard College for two years, cratic National Convention of 1860.’’ Journal of Mississippi History 14 (Oc- and was graduated from Yale College in 1771; studied the- tober 1952): 257-78. ology; licensed to preach January 3, 1775; ordained to the ministry December 5, 1781, and was installed as pastor BARKSDALE, William (brother of Ethelbert Barksdale), of the First Congregational Church of Middleboro, Plymouth a Representative from Mississippi; born in Rutherford Coun- County, Mass.; elected as a Republican to the Ninth and ty, Tenn., August 21, 1821; attended the University of Nash- Tenth Congresses (March 4, 1805-March 3, 1809); was not ville; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1839 and a candidate for renomination in 1808; member of the State commenced practice in Columbus, Lowndes County, Miss.; house of representatives in 1812 and 1813; continued in for a time was editor of the Columbus Democrat; served the ministry at Middleboro, Mass., until his death, July in the Mexican War as quartermaster of the Mississippi 5, 1815; interment in Green Cemetery. Volunteers; delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore in 1852; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty- BARKLEY, Alben William, a Representative and a Sen- third and to the three succeeding Congresses and served ator from Kentucky and a Vice President of the United from March 4, 1853, until January 12, 1861, when he with- States; born near Lowes, Graves County, Ky., November drew; entered the Confederate Army during the Civil War 24, 1877; attended the public schools and graduated from as colonel of the Thirteenth Regiment of Mississippi Volun- Marvin College, Clinton, Ky., in 1897; attended Emory Col- teers; promoted to the rank of brigadier general on August lege, Oxford, Ga., and the University of Virginia Law School, 12, 1862; commanded a Mississippi brigade in Longstreet’s Charlottesville, Va.; admitted to the bar in 1901 and com- corps; killed in the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863; menced practice in Paducah, McCracken County, Ky.; pros- interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Miss. ecuting attorney for McCracken County, Ky. 1905-1909; Bibliography: McKee, James W. ‘‘William Barksdale and the Congres- judge of McCracken County Court 1909-1913; elected as a sional Election of 1853.’’ Journal of Mississippi History 34 (May 1972): Democrat to the Sixty-third and to the six succeeding Con- 129-58; McKee, James W. ‘‘William Barksdale and the Congressional Elec- gresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1927); did not seek renomi- tion of 1853.’’ Journal of Mississippi History 34 (May 1972): 129-58. nation in 1926, having become a candidate for United States BARLOW, Bradley, a Representative from Vermont; Senator; elected to the United States Senate in 1926; re- born in Fairfield, Franklin County, Vt., May 12, 1814; at- elected in 1932, 1938, and again in 1944, and served from tended the common schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits March 4, 1927, until his resignation on January 19, 1949; in Philadelphia until 1858, when he moved to St. Albans, majority leader 1937-1947; minority leader 1947-1949; elect- Vt.; delegate to the State constitutional conventions in 1843, ed Vice President of the United States on the Democratic 1850, and 1857, acting as assistant secretary in 1843; mem- ticket with President Harry S. Truman in 1948; inaugurated ber of the State house of representatives in 1845, 1850- January 20, 1949, for the term ending January 20, 1953; 1852, 1864, and 1865; engaged in banking and in the rail- again elected to the United States Senate and served from road business 1860-1883; chairman of the school committee January 3, 1955, until his death in Lexington, Va., April in St. Albans; president of the village corporation and treas- 30, 1956; interment in Mount Kenton Cemetery, on Lone urer of Franklin County 1860-1867; served in the State sen- Oak Road, near Paducah, Ky. ate 1866-1868; elected as a Greenbacker to the Forty-sixth Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Barkley, Alben. That Reminds Me. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1954; Davis, Polly. Alben Bar- Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); was not a can- kley: Senate Majority Leader and Vice President. New York: Garland Pub- didate for renomination in 1880; died in Denver, Colo., on lishing, Inc., 1979. November 6, 1889; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, St. Albans, Vt. BARKLEY, Dean, a Senator from Minnesota; born Au- gust 31, 1950, in Annandale, Minn.; graduated Annandale BARLOW, Charles Averill, a Representative from Cali- High School 1968; B.S., University of Minnesota 1972; J.D., fornia; born in Cleveland, Ohio, March 17, 1858; attended University of Minnesota 1976; practiced law in Minnesota; the common schools; moved to Ventura, Calif., in 1875 and president, Dayton’s Furniture in Annandale 1988-1991; to San Luis Obispo County, Calif., 1889; farmer; business- founder and chair, Minnesota Reform Party, later Minnesota man; member of the California state assembly, 1892-1893; Independence Party; unsuccessful candidate for the United chairman of the People’s Party state convention, 1896; elect- States House of Representatives in 1992; unsuccessful can- ed as a Populist to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897- didate for United States Senate in 1994 and 1996; appointed March 3, 1899); was not a candidate for renomination; dele- on November 4, 2002, to the United States Senate to fill gate to the Democratic National Conventions, 1912 and the vacancy caused by the death of Paul D. Wellstone; took 1920; died on October 3, 1927, in Bakersfield, Calif.; inter- the oath of office in Minnesota on November 5, 2002, and ment in Union Cemetery, Bakersfield, Calif. served until January 3, 2003. BARLOW, Stephen, a Representative from Pennsylvania; BARKSDALE, Ethelbert (brother of William Barksdale), born in Redding, Fairfield County, Conn., June 13, 1779; a Representative from Mississippi; born in Smyrna, Ruther- attended the common schools and Yale College; moved to ford County, Tenn., January 4, 1824; moved to Jackson, Meadville, Pa., in 1816; studied law; was admitted to the Hinds County, Miss.; adopted journalism as a profession; bar and commenced practice in Meadville, Crawford County, edited the official journal of the State 1854-1861 and 1876- Pa.; elected to the Twentieth Congress (March 4, 1827- 1883; member of the Confederate Congress 1861-1865; dele- March 3, 1829); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1828 gate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1860, 1868, to the Twenty-first Congress; resumed the practice of his 1872, and 1880; chairman of the Democratic State executive profession; served in the State house of representatives committee 1877-1879; elected as a Democrat to the Forty- 1829-1831; appointed as an associate judge of Crawford eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March County in January 1831 and served until his death in Mead- Biographies 611

ville, Pa., August 24, 1845; interment in Greendale Ceme- BARNARD, William Oscar, a Representative from Indi- tery. ana; born near Liberty, Union County, Ind., October 25, 1852; moved with his parents to Dublin, Wayne County, BARLOW, Thomas J., III, a Representative from Ken- Ind., in 1854, to Fayette County in 1856, and to Henry tucky; born in Washington, D.C., August 7, 1940; B.A., Hav- County in 1866; attended the common schools, and erford College, Haverford, Pa., 1962; banker; business execu- Spiceland Academy, Spiceland, Ind.; taught school for five tive; conservation consultant, Natural Resources Defense years in Henry and Wayne Counties; admitted to the Indi- Council, 1971-1982; unsuccessful candidate for nomination ana bar, 1876; prosecuting attorney of the eighteenth and to the One Hundredth Congress in 1986; elected as a Demo- fifty-third judicial circuits, 1887-1893; judge of the fifty-third crat to the One Hundred Third Congress (January 3, 1993- judicial circuit court of Indiana, 1896-1902; elected as a Re- January 3, 1995); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to publican to the Sixty-first Congress (March 4, 1909-March the One Hundred Fourth Congress in 1994; unsuccessful 3, 1911); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty- candidate for election in 1998 and in 2002. second Congress in 1910; resumed the practice of law in BARNARD, , a Representative from New New Castle, Ind.; died on April 8, 1939, in New Castle, York; born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., July 16, Indiana; interment in Southmound Cemetery, New Castle, 1797; attended the common schools and was graduated from Ind. Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1818; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1821 and began practice in BARNES, Demas, a Representative from New York; born Rochester, N.Y.; prosecuting attorney of Monroe County in in Gorham Township, Ontario County, N.Y., April 4, 1827; 1826; elected to the Twentieth Congress (March 4, 1827- attended the public schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits; March 3, 1829); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1828 moved to New York City in 1849 and engaged in the drug to the Twenty-first Congress; traveled in Europe in 1831; business; crossed the continent in a wagon and studied the moved to Albany, N.Y., in 1832 and continued the practice mineral resources of Colorado, Nevada, and California; re- of law; member of the State assembly in 1838; elected as turned to New York City and wrote articles and published a Whig to the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, and Twenty- works concerning his experiences; elected as a Democrat eighth Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1845); chairman, to the Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1869); Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty-seventh Congress); was was not a candidate for renomination in 1868; established not a candidate for reelection in 1844; appointed Minister and edited the Brooklyn Argus in 1873 and was also en- to Prussia and served from September 3, 1850, to September gaged in the real-estate business; member of the board of 21, 1853; retired from active business pursuits in 1853 and education; one of the original trustees of the Brooklyn engaged in literary pursuits; died in Albany, N.Y., April Bridge when it was a private enterprise; died in New York 24, 1861; interment in Albany Rural Cemetery. City May 1, 1888; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. Bibliography: Penney, Sherry. Patrician in Politics: Daniel Dewey Bar- nard of New York. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1974. BARNES, George Thomas, a Representative from Geor- gia; born in a suburb (now called Summerville) of Augusta, BARNARD, Druie Douglas, Jr., a Representative from Richmond County, Ga., August 14, 1833; attended private Georgia; born in Augusta, Richmond County, Ga., March schools, Richmond Academy, and Franklin College; was 20, 1922; attended the Richmond County public schools; graduated from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1853; graduated, Academy of Richmond County, Augusta, Ga., studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1855 and com- 1939; attended Augusta College, 1939-1940; A.B., Mercer menced practice in Augusta; during the Civil War served University, Macon, Ga., 1943; served in United States Army, in the Confederate Army in the Washington Light Artillery 1943-1945; LL.B., Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer Company of Augusta, Ga., as and major University, 1948; engaged in banking profession, 1948-1962; ; member of the State house of representatives 1860- executive secretary to Governor Carl E. Sanders, Georgia, 1865; member of the Democratic National Committee 1876- 1963-1966; board member, Georgia State Department of 1884; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Transportation, 1966-1976; delegate to Georgia State Demo- and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1891); cratic convention, 1962; delegate to Democratic National unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty- Convention, 1964; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth second Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Au- and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1977- gusta, Ga., October 24, 1901; interment in the City Ceme- January 3, 1993); was not a candidate for renomination tery. in 1992 to the One Hundred Third Congress; is a resident of Augusta, Ga. BARNES, James Martin, a Representative from Illinois; born in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Ill., January 9, 1899; BARNARD, Isaac Dutton, a Senator from Pennsylvania; born in Aston Township, Delaware County, Pa., July 18, attended the public schools; during the First World War 1791; moved with his parents to a farm near Chester, Pa.; served overseas as a private in the United States Marine attended the public schools; moved to Philadelphia, where Corps in 1918 and 1919; was graduated from Illinois College he remained until 1811, when he returned to Chester; while at Jacksonville in 1921 and from the law department of studying law was appointed captain and major in the Four- Harvard University in 1924; was admitted to the bar in teenth Regiment, United States Infantry, and served during 1924 and commenced the practice of law in Jacksonville, the War of 1812; resumed his legal studies; admitted to Ill.; served as county judge of Morgan County, Ill., 1926- the bar in 1816 and commenced practice in West Chester, 1934; resumed the practice of law 1934-1939; elected as Chester County, Pa.; deputy attorney general for Chester a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Con- County 1817-1821; member of the State senate 1820-1826; gresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1943); unsuccessful can- secretary of State 1826; elected as a Jacksonian to the didate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; United States Senate and served from March 4, 1827, until appointed administrative assistant to President Franklin D. December 6, 1831, when he resigned; chairman, Committee Roosevelt on March 1, 1943, and served until July 15, 1945; on Militia (Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses); resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., where died in West Chester, Pa., February 28, 1834; interment he died June 8, 1958; interment in Arlington National Ceme- in Oakland’s Cemetery, near West Chester, Pa. tery. 612 Biographical Directory

BARNES, Lyman Eddy, a Representative from Wis- for four years; studied law in West Bend, Wis.; was admitted consin; born in Weyauwega, Waupaca County, Wis., June to the bar in 1873 and commenced practice in West Bend; 30, 1855; attended the public schools and the law depart- superintendent of schools of Washington County 1876-1880; ment of Columbia College, New York City; was admitted delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago to the bar in 1876 and commenced practice in Appleton, in 1884; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1884 to the Outagamie County, Wis., the same year; moved to Forty-ninth Congress; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- Rockledge, Brevard County, Fla., in 1882, where he re- fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, mained about five years and continued the practice of law; 1895-March 3, 1903); was not a candidate for renomination returned to Appleton, Wis., and was elected district attorney in 1902; appointed associate justice of the court of claims, of Outagamie County; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty- Washington, D.C., in 1904 and served until 1919; died in third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful Milwaukee, Wis., December 31, 1919; interment in Union candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; Cemetery, West Bend, Washington County, Wis. resumed the practice of his profession; died in Appleton, Wis., on January 16, 1904; interment in Riverside Cemetery. BARNHART, Henry A., a Representative from Indiana; born near Twelve Mile, Cass County, Ind., September 11, BARNES, Michael Darr, a Representative from Mary- 1858; attended the common schools, Amboy Academy, and land; born in Washington, D.C., September 3, 1943; attended Wabash Normal Training School; teacher; farmer; surveyor Landon School, Bethesda, Md.; graduated, Principia High of Fulton County, Ind., 1885-1887; newspaper publisher; School, St. Louis, Mo., 1962; B.A., University of North Caro- businessman; director of the United States Bank Trust Co.; lina, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1965; Institute of Higher Inter- director, Indiana State Prison, 1893; hospital executive; national Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, 1965-1966; J.D., elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress to fill the George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1972; vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative United States Marine Corps, corporal, 1967-1969; admitted Abram L. Brick; reelected to the Sixty-first and to the four to the Washington, D.C. bar, 1972; lawyer, private prac- succeeding Congresses (November 3, 1908-March 3, 1919); tice;& commissioner, Maryland Public Service Commission, unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-sixth Con- 1975-1978; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-sixth and gress in 1918; lecturer; died on March 26, 1934, in Roch- to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-Janu- ester, Ind.; interment in the Mausoleum, Rochester, Ind. ary 3, 1987); was not a candidate for reelection in 1986, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomi- BARNITZ, Charles Augustus, a Representative from nation for the United States Senate; private advocate; is Pennsylvania; born in York, York County, Pa., September a resident of Kensington, Md. 11, 1780; attended York County Academy, York, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1811 and commenced prac- BARNETT, William, a Representative from Georgia; born tice in York; member of the State senate, 1815-1819; from in Amherst County, Va., March 4, 1761; moved to Georgia 1820 until his death served as agent of the heirs of William with his father, who settled in Columbia County; at the Penn for their interests in Springettsbury Manor, the center outbreak of the Revolutionary War returned to Virginia with of which is now the city of York; elected as an Anti-Masonic his brother and joined a military company from Amherst candidate to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833- County under the leadership of the Marquis de Lafayette March 3, 1835); was not a candidate for reelection in 1834 and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown; to the Twenty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law returned to Georgia at the close of the war and settled at York, Pa.; also engaged in banking and served as presi- on Broad River, Elbert County; sheriff of Elbert County dent of the York Bank; member of the State constitutional for several years; member of the State senate and served convention in 1838; delegate to the Whig National Conven- as pesident of that body; elected as a Republican to the tions at Harrisburg in 1840 and at Baltimore in 1844; died Twelfth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- in York, Pa., January 8, 1850; interment in the First Pres- tion of Howell Cobb; reelected to the Thirteenth Congress byterian Churchyard. and served from October 5, 1812, to March 3, 1815; ap- pointed commissioner to establish the boundaries of the BARNUM, William Henry, a Representative and a Sen- Creek Indian Reservation in 1815; moved to Montgomery ator from Connecticut; born in Boston Corner, Columbia County, Ala., and engaged in planting; died in Montgomery County, N.Y., September 17, 1818; attended the common County, Ala., April 1832; interment in the Gilmer-Christian- schools; apprenticed to the trade of iron founder and subse- Barnett Cemetery, near Mathews Station, Montgomery quently admitted to partnership by his father, who was en- County, Ala. gaged in the iron business at Lime Rock, Conn.; member, State house of representatives 1851-1852; elected as a Demo- BARNEY, John, a Representative from Maryland; born crat to the Fortieth and to the four succeeding Congresses in Baltimore, Md., January 18, 1785; appointed a captain and served from March 4, 1867, until May 18, 1876, when and assistant district quartermaster general in the United he resigned to become Senator; elected to the United States States Army August 15, 1814, and served until June 15, Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Orris 1815, when he was honorably discharged; unsuccessful can- S. Ferry and served from May 18, 1876, to March 3, 1879; didate for election in 1822 to the Eighteenth Congress; elect- chair, Democratic National Committee 1876-1889; resumed ed to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, his former manufacturing pursuits; died at Lime Rock, 1825-March 3, 1829); unsuccessful candidate for reelection Litchfield County, Conn., April 30, 1889; interment in the in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress; engaged in literary Lime Rock Cemetery in Salisbury, Conn. pursuits until his death in Washington, D.C., January 26, 1857; interment in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. BARNWELL, Robert (father of Robert Woodward Barn- well), a Delegate and a Representative from South Carolina; BARNEY, Samuel Stebbins, a Representative from Wis- born in Beaufort, S.C., December 21, 1761; educated in the consin; born in Hartford, Washington County, Wis., January common schools and by private teachers; volunteered for 31, 1846; attended the public schools and Lombard Univer- service in the Revolutionary War when sixteen years of age; sity, Galesburg, Ill.; taught in the high school at Hartford received seventeen wounds in the battle on Johns Island, Biographies 613

S.C.; finally recovered and served as lieutenant with his liam Jefferson Clinton; unsuccessful candidate for nomina- company at the siege of Charleston in 1780; at the fall tion to the One Hundred Eighth Congress in 2002. of that city was sent aboard the prison ship Pack Horse, but was released in the general exchange of prisoners in BARR, Joseph Walker, a Representative from Indiana; June 1781; was for many years president of the board of born in Bicknell, Knox County, Ind., January 17, 1918; grad- trustees of Beaufort College; Member of the Continental uated from DePauw University in 1939 and from Harvard Congress in 1789; member of the convention of South Caro- University in 1941; served in the United States Navy, 1942- lina for the adoption of the Federal Constitution in 1788; 1945, with subchaser duty in the Mediterranean and Atlan- elected to the Second Congress (March 4, 1791-March 3, tic; received Bronze Star for sinking submarine off Anzio 1793); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1792 Beach; engaged in the operation of grain elevators, theaters, to the Third Congress; member of the South Carolina house real-estate, and publishing business; elected as a Democrat of representatives 1787-1788, 1790-1791, and 1794-1801, to the Eighty-sixth Congress (January 3, 1959-January 3, serving as speaker in 1795; member of the South Carolina 1961); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1960 to the senate in 1805 and 1806, serving as president in 1805; died Eighty-seventh Congress; appointed assistant for congres- in Beaufort, Beaufort County, S.C., October 24, 1814; inter- sional relations to the Secretary of the Treasury, 1961; ap- ment in St. Helena’s Churchyard. pointed Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 1963; Under Secretary of the Treasury, 1965-1968; appointed BARNWELL, Robert Woodward (son of Robert Barn- by President Johnson as Secretary of the Treasury, Decem- well), a Representative and a Senator from South Carolina; ber 21, 1968, to January 20, 1969; president and chairman, born in Beaufort, Beaufort County, S.C., August 10, 1801; American Security and Trust Company, 1969-1974; chair- attended private schools in Beaufort and Charleston, S.C., man, Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, 1977-1981; died and graduated from Harvard University in 1821; studied February 23, 1996 in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Beau- fort, S.C., in 1824; member, State house of representatives BARR, Samuel Fleming, a Representative from Pennsyl- 1826-1828; elected to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second vania; born near Coleraine, County Antrim, Ireland, June Congresses (March 4, 1829-March 3,1833); not a candidate 15, 1829; immigrated to the United States in 1831 with for renomination in 1832; president of South Carolina Col- his parents, who settled in Harrisburg, Pa.; attended the lege (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia common schools; freight agent of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne 1835-1841, when he resigned; appointed to the United States & Chicago Railroad in 1855 and 1856; early in the Civil Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Franklin War was employed upon government railways in and about H. Elmore and served from June 4 to December 8, 1850, Washington, D.C.; editor of the Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph when a successor was elected and qualified; not a candidate 1873-1878; elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh and for election; member of the Nashville convention in 1850; Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1885); de- commissioner to the Federal Government from South Caro- clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1884; lived lina regarding the secession of that State in December 1860; in retirement until his death, residing in San Diego, Calif., delegate to the convention of the seceding States in Mont- in the winter and in Seal Harbor, Maine, during the summer gomery, Ala., his being the deciding vote in the South Caro- season; died in San Diego, Calif., May 29, 1919; interment lina delegation which carried the State for Jefferson Davis in Odd Fellows Cemetery. and made him President of the Southern Confederacy; mem- BARR, Thomas Jefferson, a Representative from New ber of the Confederate States Senate 1861-1865; chairman York; born in New York City in 1812; attended the public of the faculty of the University of South Carolina 1866- schools; moved to Scotch Plains, N.J., in 1835 and conducted 1873; conducted a private girls school in Columbia, S.C.; a roadhouse; returned to New York City in 1842; assistant died in Columbia, Richland County, S.C., November 5, 1882; alderman of the sixth ward in 1849 and 1850 and alderman interment in St. Helena’s Churchyard, Beaufort, S.C. in 1852 and 1853; served in the State senate in 1854 and Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- 1855; elected on January 6, 1859, as an Independent Demo- ography; Barnwell, John, ed. ‘‘’In the Hands of Compromisers’: Letters of Robert W. Barnwell to James H. Hammond.’’ Civil War History 29 (June crat to the Thirty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused 1983): 154-68; Barnwell, John, ed. ‘‘Hamlet to Hotspur: Letters of Robert by the resignation of John Kelly; reelected to the Thirty- Woodward Barnwell to Robert Barnwell Rhett.’’ South Carolina Historical sixth Congress and served from January 17, 1859, to March Magazine 77 (October 1976): 236-37, 247. 3, 1861; was not a candidate for renomination in 1860; ap- pointed a police commissioner of New York City in 1870 BARR, Bob, a Representative from Georgia; born in Iowa and served until 1873, when the police board was abolished; City, Johnson County, Iowa, November 5, 1948; graduated, was subsequently employed in the customhouse; died in New Community High School, Tehran, Iran, 1966; B.A., Univer- York City, March 27, 1881; interment in Calvary Cemetery, sity of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif., 1970; M.A., Long Island, N.Y. George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1972; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., BARRERE, Granville (nephew of Nelson Barrere), a 1977; Central Intelligence Agency, 1970-1978; United States Representative from Illinois; born in New Market, near Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, 1986-1990; Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio, July 11, 1829; attended anti-drug coordinator for Department of Justice, South- the common schools, Augusta College, Augusta, Ky., and eastern United States, 1986-1990; head, Public Corruption was graduated from Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio; stud- Subcommittee for United States Attorney General, 1987- ied law; was admitted to the bar in Chillicothe, Ross County, 1988; president, Southeastern Legal Foundation, 1990-1991; Ohio, in 1853 and commenced practice in Marion, Crittenden unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination to the County, Ark.; moved to Bloomington, McLean County, Ill., United States Senate in 1992; elected as a Republican to in 1855, and then to Canton, Fulton County, Ill., the same the One Hundred Fourth and to the three succeeding Con- year, and continued the practice of his profession; member gresses (January 3, 1995-January 3, 2003); one of the man- of the city board of education; member of the board of super- agers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1998 visors of Canton; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third to conduct the impeachment proceedings of President Wil- Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful can- 614 Biographical Directory

didate for renomination in 1874; resumed the practice of School, Westminster, S.C., 1979; B.A., The Citadel, Charles- law; died in Canton, Fulton County, Ill., January 13, 1889; ton, S.C., 1983; United States Army, 1983-1987; business interment in Greenwood Cemetery. owner; member of the South Carolina state house of rep- resentatives, 1996-2002; elected as a Republican to the One BARRERE, Nelson (uncle of Granville Barrere), a Rep- Hundred Eighth Congress (January 3, 2003-present). resentative from Ohio; born in New Market, near Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio, April 1, 1808; attended the common BARRETT, Thomas M., a Representative from Wis- schools, and Hillsboro High School in 1827; was graduated consin; born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wis., Decem- from Augusta (Ky.) College in 1830; studied law; was admit- ber 8, 1953; graduated from Marquette University High ted to the bar in 1833 and commenced practice in Hillsboro; School, Milwaukee, Wis.; B.A., University of Wisconsin, moved to West Union, Adams County, Ohio, in 1834 and Madison, Wis., 1976; J.D., University of Wisconsin School continued the practice of law; in 1846 returned to Hillsboro, of Law, 1980; clerk to United States Judge Robert Warren where he resided until his death; member of the State house of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1980-1982; lawyer, pri- of representatives in 1837 and 1838; elected as a Whig to vate practice; unsuccessful candidate to the Wisconsin state the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); assembly in 1982; member of the Wisconsin state assembly, unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1852 to the Thirty- 1984-1989; member of the , 1989- third Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Hills- 1993; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Third boro, Highland County, Ohio, August 20, 1883; interment and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1993- in Presbyterian Cemetery, New Market, Ohio. January 3, 2003); not a candidate for reelection to the One BARRET, John Richard, a Representative from Mis- Hundred Eighth Congress in 2002, but was an unsuccessful souri; born in Greensburg, Green County, Ky., August 21, nominee for . 1825; attended the common schools and Centre College, BARRETT, William Aloysius, a Representative from Danville, Ky.; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1839; was grad- Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., August 14, 1896; uated from the St. Louis University in 1843; studied law was graduated from Brown Preparatory School in Philadel- and practiced; elected to the State house of representatives phia, Pa., and from St. Joseph’s College, Philadelphia, Pa.; in 1852 and served four terms; became identified with the took a law course at South Jersey Law School in Camden, St. Louis Agricultural Society and organized its exhibitions; N.J.; engaged in the real-estate business; member of the presented credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Board of Mercantile Appraisers, Philadelphia, Pa., for four Thirty-sixth Congress and served from March 4, 1859, to years; member of the Democratic city committee; elected June 8, 1860, when he was succeeded by Francis P. Blair, as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, Jr., who contested his election; subsequently elected to the 1945-January 3, 1947); unsuccessful candidate for reelection same Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; elected to the Eighty- of Francis P. Blair, Jr., and served from December 3, 1860, first Congress; reelected to the thirteen succeeding Con- to March 3, 1861; unsuccessful for reelection in 1860 to gresses and served from January 3, 1949, until his death the Thirty-seventh Congress; moved to New York City and April 12, 1976, in Philadelphia, Pa., interment in Holy Cross engaged in numerous occupations; died in New York City Cemetery, Yeadon, Pa. on November 2, 1903; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky. BARRETT, William E., a Representative from Nebraska; born in Lexington, Dawson County, Nebr., February 9, 1929; BARRETT, Frank Aloysius, a Representative and a B.A., Hastings College, 1952; graduate of the Nebraska Real- Senator from Wyoming; born in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebr., November 10, 1892; attended the public schools; grad- tors Institute; certified real estate broker; admissions coun- uated from Creighton University, Omaha, Nebr., in 1913 selor, Hastings College, 1952-1954, assistant director of ad- and from its law department in 1916; during the First World missions, 1954-1956; partner in a real estate agency, Lex- War served as a sergeant in the Balloon Corps, United ington, 1956-1959; officer of a real estate agency, 1959-1990; States Army 1917-1919; admitted to the bar in 1919 and member, Nebraska Republican State Executive Committee, commenced practice in Lusk, Wyo.; also a rancher; county 1964-1966, 1973-1979, chairman, 1973-1975; member, Re- attorney of Niobrara County, Wyo. 1923-1932; member, publican National Committee, 1973-1975; delegate to the State senate 1933-1935; member of the board of trustees 1968 Republican National Convention; chaired the Nebraska of the University of Wyoming; elected as a Republican to primary and general election campaigns of President Gerald the Seventy-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses Ford, 1975-1976; trustee and co-founder, Nebraska Real Es- and served from January 3, 1943, until his resignation De- tate Political Education Committee; State senator, 1979- cember 31, 1950, having been elected Governor of Wyoming; 1991, speaker of the Nebraska Legislature, 1987-1991; elect- served as Governor from January 1951 until his resignation ed as a Republican to the One Hundred Second and to January 2, 1953, having been elected a Senator; elected the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1991-January as a Republican to the United States Senate and served 3, 2001); was not a candidate for reelection to the One from January 3, 1953, to January 3, 1959; unsuccessful can- Hundred Seventh Congress. didate for reelection in 1958; general counsel, Department BARRETT, William Emerson, a Representative from of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., and member of board of Massachusetts; born in Melrose, Middlesex County, Mass., directors of Commodity Credit Corporation 1959-1960; un- December 29, 1858; attended the public schools; was grad- successful candidate for the Republican nomination for uated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1880; as- United States Senate 1960; died in Cheyenne, Wyo., May sistant editor of the St. Albans Daily Messenger; joined the 30, 1962; interment in Lusk Cemetery, Lusk, Wyo. staff of the Boston Daily Advertiser in 1882; Washington Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- ography. correspondent of the Boston Advertiser 1882-1886; recalled to Boston to become editor in chief and in 1888 became BARRETT, James Gresham, a Representative from chief proprietor and manager of the Boston Daily Advertiser South Carolina; born in Westminster, Oconee County, S.C., and the Boston Evening Record; member of the State house February 14, 1961; graduated from Westminster High of representatives 1887-1892 and served as speaker the last Biographies 615

five years; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and Stephens), Oglethorpe County, Ga., August 1, 1839; attended Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1899); de- a private academy; graduated from the law department of clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1898; returned the University of Georgia at Athens in 1860; admitted to to Boston and resumed active management of his newspaper the bar in 1860 and commenced practice in Athens, Clarke interests; president of the Union Trust Co. of Boston; died County, Ga.; during the Civil War entered the Confederate in Newton, Mass., February 12, 1906; interment in Newton service in 1861 and served throughout the war; resumed Cemetery. the practice of law in Athens; member of the State constitu- tional convention in 1877; member, State house of represent- BARRINGER, Daniel Laurens (uncle of Daniel Moreau atives 1880-1881; elected as a Democrat to the United States Barringer), a Representative from North Carolina; born at Senate in 1882 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of ‘‘Poplar Grove,’’ Cabarrus County, N.C., October 1, 1788; Benjamin H. Hill and served from November 15, 1882, to studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- March 3, 1883; was not a candidate for reelection; resumed tice in Raleigh, Wake County, N.C.; member of the State the practice of law in Athens, Ga.; judge of the eastern house of commons in 1813, 1814, and 1819-1822; elected judicial circuit of Georgia from January 6, 1902, until his to the Nineteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by death in Savannah, Ga., December 23, 1903; interment in the resignation of Willie P. Mangum; reelected to the Twen- a private cemetery on the family plantation in Oglethorpe tieth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served County, Ga. from December 4, 1826, to March 3, 1835; unsuccessful can- Bibliography: Mellichamp, Josephine. ‘‘Pope Barrow.’’ In Senators From didate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress; Georgia. pp. 178-80. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers, 1976. moved to Bedford County, Tenn., about 1830 and settled in Shelbyville, where he continued the practice of law; mem- BARROW, Washington, a Representative from Ten- ber and speaker of the State house of representatives 1843- nessee; born in Davidson County, Tenn., October 5, 1807; 1845; presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1844; died received a classical education; lawyer, private practice; Min- in Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tenn., October 16, 1852; ister to Portugal, 1841-1844; newspaper editor; elected as interment in Willow Mount Cemetery. a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); was not a candidate for renomination to the Thirty- BARRINGER, Daniel Moreau (nephew of Daniel first Congress in 1848; businessman; member of the Ten- Laurens Barringer), a Representative from North Carolina; nessee state senate, 1860-1861; died in St. Louis, Mo., Octo- born at ‘‘Poplar Grove,’’ near Concord, Cabarrus County, ber 19, 1866; interment in the vault of Dr. John Shelby N.C., July 30, 1806; was graduated from the University on a private estate in East Nashville, Tenn. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1826; studied law in Hillsboro; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice BARROWS, Samuel June, a Representative from Massa- in Concord, N.C., in 1829; member of the State house of chusetts; born in New York City May 26, 1845; after attend- commons 1829-1834, 1840, and 1842; member of the State ing primary school was graduated from the Harvard Divinity constitutional convention in 1835; elected as a Whig to the School in the fall of 1871; while at Harvard University was Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses the Boston correspondent of the New York Tribune; went (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1849); chairman, Committee on with the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873, under the com- Expenditures in the Department of State (Thirtieth Con- mand of General Stanley, and with the Black Hills Expedi- gress), Committee on Indian Affairs (Thirtieth Congress); tion in 1874, commanded by General Custer; in 1873 took declined a renomination; appointed by President Taylor and part in the Battles of Tongue River and the Big Horn; pastor reappointed by President Fillmore Minister to Spain and of the first parish, Dorchester (Boston), Mass., from 1876- served from June 18, 1849, until September 4, 1853; again 1881, when he resigned to become editor of the Christian elected to the State house of commons in 1854; delegate Register, which position he held for 16 years; American rep- to the peace convention held in Washington, D.C., in 1861 resentative to the International Prison Congress of 1895, in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; 1900, and 1905, at which he was elected to serve as presi- delegate to the Union National Convention at Philadelphia dent of the 1910 congress; elected as a Republican to the in August 1866; chairman of the Democratic State com- Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); unsuc- mittee in 1872; died at White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier cessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth County, Va., September 1, 1873; interment in Greenmount Congress; secretary of the New York Prison Association Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. 1899-1909; died in New York City April 21, 1909; remains were cremated and the ashes placed in a private burying BARROW, Alexander, a Senator from Louisiana; born ground near Georgeville, Quebec, Canada. near Nashville, Tenn., March 27, 1801; attended the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., 1816-1818; stud- BARRY, Alexander Grant, a Senator from Oregon; born ied law; admitted to the bar in 1822 and commenced practice in Astoria, Clatsop County, Oreg., August 23, 1892; attended in Nashville, Tenn.; moved soon afterward to Louisiana and the public schools of Astoria and Portland, Oreg., the Uni- settled in Feliciana Parish and continued the practice of versity of Washington at Seattle, the University of Oregon law, which he later abandoned to become a planter; member Law School, and Northwest College of Law at Portland, of the State house of representatives for several terms; elect- Oreg.; admitted to the bar in 1917 and commenced practice ed in 1840 as a Whig to the United States Senate and in Portland, Oreg.; during the First World War was commis- served from March 4, 1841, until his death in Baltimore, sioned a second lieutenant and served in the artillery until Md., December 29, 1846; chairman, Committee on Public February 1919; member of the Oregon Relief Committee Buildings (Twenty-seventh Congress), Committee on Militia in 1932, the Oregon Relief Commission in 1933, and the (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses); interment Oregon Liquor Control Commission 1933-1935; chairman of in a private cemetery at Afton Villa plantation, near Bayou School District No. 1 Civil Service Board in 1937 and 1938; Sara, La. elected on November 8, 1938, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation BARROW, Middleton Pope (grandson of Wilson of and served from November 9, 1938, Lumpkin), a Senator from Georgia; born near Antioch (now to January 3, 1939; was not a candidate for election to 616 Biographical Directory

the full term; resumed the practice of law; member, State BARRY, William Bernard, a Representative from New house of representatives 1945-1950; died in Portland, Oreg., York; born in County Mayo, Ireland, July 21, 1902; immi- December 28, 1952; interment in Willamette National Ceme- grated to the United States in 1907 with his parents, who tery. settled in Queens County, N.Y.; attended the public schools; was graduated from New York University at New York City BARRY, Frederick George, a Representative from Mis- in 1925 and from its law school in 1929; was admitted sissippi; born in Woodbury, Cannon County, Tenn., January to the bar in 1929 and commenced practice in New York 12, 1845; received a limited education; served as a private City; assistant district attorney of Queens County, N.Y., in in Company E, Eighth Confederate Cavalry, Col. William 1932 and 1933; special United States attorney for the De- B. Wade’s regiment, during the Civil War; studied law; was partment of Justice 1933-1935; member of the Democratic admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Aberdeen, executive committee of Queens County 1930-1935; elected Monroe County, Miss.; moved to West Point, Miss., in 1873 as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Congress to fill the and continued the practice of law; member of the State vacancy caused by the resignation of William F. Brunner; senate 1875-1879; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth reelected to the Seventy-fifth and to the four succeeding and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889); was Congresses and served from November 5, 1935, until his not a candidate for renomination in 1888; resumed the prac- death; had been renominated to the Eightieth Congress; died tice of law in West Point, Clay County, Miss., where he in New York City, on October 20, 1946; interment in Mount died May 7, 1909; interment in Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, St. Mary’s Cemetery, Flushing, N.Y. Aberdeen, Miss. BARRY, William Taylor, a Representative and a Senator BARRY, Henry W., a Representative from Mississippi; from Kentucky; born near Lunenburg, Lunenburg County, born in Schoharie County, N.Y., in April 1840; self-educated; Va., February 5, 1784; moved to Fayette County, Ky., in principal of Locust Grove Academy in Kentucky; during the 1796 with his parents; attended the common schools, Pisgah Civil War enlisted in the Union Army; organized a regiment Academy and Kentucky Academy in Woodford County, Ky., of colored troops in Kentucky; commissioned first lieutenant Transylvania University at Lexington, Ky., and graduated of the Tenth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, No- from William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Va., in vember 21, 1861; colonel of the Eighth United States Colored 1803; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1805 and com- Artillery April 28, 1864; brevetted brigadier general of Vol- menced practice at Lexington, Ky.; appointed Common- unteers March 13, 1865; mustered out May 11, 1866; was wealth attorney; member, State house of representatives graduated from the law department of Columbian College 1807; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Eleventh (now George Washington University), Washington, D.C., in Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of 1867; was admitted to the bar the same year and com- Benjamin Howard and served from August 8, 1810, to March menced practice in Columbus, Lowndes County, Miss.; dele- 3, 1811; served in the military during the War of 1812; gate to the State constitutional convention in 1867; member member, State house of representatives 1814 and was cho- of the State senate in 1868; upon the readmission of the sen speaker; elected as a Democratic Republican to the State of Mississippi to representation was elected as a Re- United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the res- publican to the Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third ignation of George M. Bibb and served from December 16, Congresses and served from February 23, 1870, to March 1814, until his resignation effective May 1, 1816, having 3, 1875; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post been appointed to a judicial position; appointed judge of Office Department (Forty-second and Forty-third Con- the circuit court for the eleventh district of Kentucky 1816- gresses); died in Washington, D.C., June 7, 1875; interment 1817; member, State senate 1817-1821; elected lieutenant in Oak Hill Cemetery. governor of Kentucky in 1820; professor of law and politics at Transylvania University 1822; secretary of State of Ken- BARRY, Robert Raymond, a Representative from New tucky 1824; appointed chief justice of the State court of York; born in Omaha, Nebr., May 15, 1915; received early appeals 1825; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election education in the public schools of Evanston, Ill.; attended as Governor of Kentucky in 1828; appointed Postmaster Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., 1933-1936, and the Tuck General by President Andrew Jackson March 9, 1829, and School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College in served until April 10, 1835, when he resigned; appointed 1937; studied law and finance at New York University Grad- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain uate School in 1938; engaged in investment banking with May 1, 1835; died in Liverpool, England, August 30, 1835, Kidder, Peabody & Co., in 1937 and 1938 and commercial while in route to Madrid, Spain; interment in England; re- banking with Manufacturers Trust Co., in 1938 and 1939; interment in the State Cemetery at Frankfort, Ky., 1854. executive of Bendix Aviation Corp., 1940-1943 and Yale & Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography. Towne Manufacturing Co., 1945-1950; also engaged in farm- ing, mining, and real-estate development; during the Second BARRY, William Taylor Sullivan, a Representative World War served in the office of the Under Secretary of from Mississippi; born in Columbus, Lowndes County, Miss., the Navy; served on the political staffs of Wendell Willkie December 10, 1821; was graduated from Yale College in and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and of Presidents Eisenhower 1841; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1844 and and Nixon; chairman of the Committee to commenced practice in Columbus; also engaged in planting; Build World House at the United Nations; mining operations member of the State house of representatives 1849-1851; at Portola, Calif., and land development at Salton Sea, elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March Calif.; United States delegate to several NATO Parliamen- 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); again a member of the State house tarians Conferences; United States delegate to UNESCO; of representatives and served as speaker in 1855; president elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth Congress and of the State secession convention in 1861; member of the to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January Provisional Confederate Congress; during the Civil War en- 3, 1965); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1964 to tered the Confederate Army and raised the Thirty-fifth Regi- the Eighty-ninth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for nomi- ment of Mississippi Infantry, at times acting as brigade nation in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; was a resident commander; captured at Mobile April 12, 1865; resumed of Woodside, Calif., until his death in Redwood City, Calif., the practice of law in Columbus, Miss., where he died Janu- on June 14, 1988. ary 29, 1868; interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery. 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BARSTOW, Gamaliel Henry, a Representative from the Wilderness; participated in many of the engagements New York; born in Sharon, Litchfield County, Conn., July of the Army of the Potomac and was present at the sur- 20, 1784; moved to Tioga County, N.Y., in 1812; worked render of the Confederate forces at Appomattox Court on his father’s farm and taught school; studied medicine House; returned to New Jersey and engaged in agricultural in Barrington, Mass., and practiced; member of the State pursuits; moved to Carson City, Nev., in 1869; from 1869 assembly 1815-1819; appointed first judge of the Tioga to 1876 engaged in the manufacture of copper sulphate for County Court in 1818 and served until 1823; served in the milling purposes; studied law; was admitted to the bar in State senate 1819-1822; again a member of the State assem- 1880 and practiced in the courts of Nevada; served as dis- bly 1823-1826; State treasurer 1825-1828 and again in 1838; trict attorney of Ormsby County 1880-1882; elected as a supervisor of Nichols, N.Y., in 1830; elected as an Anti- Republican to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses Masonic candidate to the Twenty-second Congress (March (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1893); was not a candidate for 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); continued the practice of medicine renomination in 1892; editor of the National Bimetallist, and engaged in agricultural pursuits in Nichols, N.Y., until published in Chicago, Ill., and Washington, D.C.; returned his death there March 30, 1865; interment in Ashbury Cem- to Carson City, Nev., in 1902; appointed State tax examiner etery, near Nichols, N.Y. in 1904; appointed railroad commissioner in March 1907 and served as chief commissioner and chairman of the com- BARSTOW, Gideon, a Representative from Massachu- mission until his death in Winnemucca, Humboldt County, setts; born in Mattapoisett, Plymouth County, Mass., Sep- Nev., August 27, 1918; interment in Lone Mountain Ceme- tember 7, 1783; attended the common schools and Brown tery, Carson City, Ormsby County, Nev. University, Providence, R.I., 1799-1801; studied medicine; was admitted to practice and settled in Salem, Essex Coun- BARTLETT, Bailey, a Representative from Massachu- ty, Mass.; member of the State constitutional convention setts; born in Haverhill, Essex County, Mass., January 29, in 1820; elected to the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1750; attended the common schools; engaged in mercantile 1821-March 3, 1823); was not a candidate for renomination pursuits until 1789; member of the State house of represent- in 1822; member of the State house of representatives in atives 1781-1784 and in 1788; member of the convention 1823, 1829, 1833, and 1837; served in the State senate in which adopted the Constitution of the United States in 1788; 1827 and 1834; presidential elector on the Whig ticket of served in the State senate in 1789; appointed high sheriff Clay and Sergeant in 1832; because of ill health moved of Essex County by Gov. John Hancock and served from to St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Fla., and engaged in July 1, 1789, until December 5, 1811; elected as a Federalist mercantile pursuits; died in St. Augustine, Fla., March 26, to the Fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the res- 1852; interment in Huguenot Cemetery. ignation of ; reelected to the Sixth Con- gress and served from November 27, 1797, to March 3, 1801; BARTHOLDT, Richard, a Representative from Missouri; was not a candidate for renomination in 1800; served as born in Schleiz, Germany, November 2, 1855; attended the treasurer of Essex County in 1812; again appointed high public schools and Schleiz College (Gymnasium); immigrated sheriff of Essex County on June 20, 1812, and served until to the United States in April 1872 and settled in Brooklyn, his death; delegate to the State constitutional convention N.Y.; learned the printing trade and became a newspaper in 1820; died in Haverhill, Mass., September 9, 1830; inter- writer and publisher; moved to Missouri and settled in St. ment in Pentucket Cemetery. Louis in 1877; was connected with several papers as re- porter, legislative correspondent, and editor, and at the time BARTLETT, Charles Lafayette, a Representative from of his election to Congress was editor in chief of the St. Georgia; born in Monticello, Jasper County, Ga., January Louis Tribune; member of the St. Louis Board of Education 31, 1853; attended private schools in Monticello and was from 1888 to 1892, serving as president from 1890 to 1892; graduated from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1870; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and to the ten studied law at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1915); chair- and was graduated from the law department of the Univer- man, Committee on Immigration and Naturalization (Fifty- sity of Georgia in 1872; was admitted to the bar the same fourth Congress), Committee on Levees and Improvements year and commenced practice in Monticello in August 1872; of the (Fifty-fifth through Fifty-eighth Con- moved to Macon, Ga., in 1875 and continued the practice gresses), Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Fifty- of law; appointed solicitor general for the Macon Judicial ninth through Sixty-first Congresses); in 1911 was appointed Court on January 31, 1877, and served in that capacity by President Taft as a special envoy to the German Emperor until January 31, 1881; member of the State house of rep- to present a statue of Baron Steuben as a gift from Congress resentatives 1882-1885; city attorney of Macon 1887-1892; and the American people; was not a candidate for renomina- served in the State senate in 1888 and 1889; appointed tion in 1914; engaged in literary pursuits; served as chair- judge of the superior court of the Macon circuit in October man of the Republican State convention at St. Joseph, Mo., 1892, and elected to the same office January 1, 1893, serving in 1896; elected president of the Interparliamentary Union until May 1, 1894, when he resigned; elected as a Democrat at the conference held in St. Louis in 1904, and for many to the Fifty-fourth and to the nine succeeding Congresses years was president of the arbitration group in Congress, (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1915); was not a candidate for which he founded in 1903; died in St. Louis, Mo., March renomination in 1914; delegate to the Democratic National 19, 1932; his body was cremated and the ashes interred Convention in 1916; resumed the practice of law in Macon, in Concordia Cemetery. Ga., also engaged in banking; died in Macon, Ga., April 21, 1938; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery. BARTINE, Horace Franklin, a Representative from Ne- vada; born in New York City March 21, 1848; moved with BARTLETT, Dewey Follett, a Senator from ; his parents to New Jersey in 1858; attended the common born in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, March 28, 1919; schools until fifteen years of age, when he enlisted as a educated in Marietta, Ohio, public schools and Lawrenceville private in the Eighth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteer In- Preparatory School, Lawrenceville, N.J.; graduated, Prince- fantry, in July 1863 and served during the last two years ton University 1942; during the Second World War served of the Civil War; was severely wounded at the Battle of in the United States Marine Corps as a dive bomber pilot 618 Biographical Directory

in the South Pacific Theater 1943-1945; moved to Oklahoma; the district of Nevada on March 3, 1915, and served until oilman, farmer, and rancher; member, Oklahoma State sen- March 30, 1918, when he resigned; appointed judge of the ate 1963-1966; Governor of Oklahoma 1967-1971; unsuccess- second judicial district court of Nevada on April 1, 1918, ful candidate for reelection as Governor in 1970; elected in which capacity he served, with the exception of about as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1972 and two years, until January 1931, when he resumed the private served from January 3, 1973, to January 3, 1979; was not practice of law; author of several books; died in Reno, Nev., a candidate for reelection in 1978 due to ill health; died June 1, 1951; interment in Mountain View Cemetery. in Tulsa, Okla., March 1, 1979; interment in Calvary Ceme- tery. BARTLETT, Harry Stephen (Steve), a Representative Bibliography: Bartlett, Dewey F. ‘‘Standardizing Military Excellence: from Texas; born in Los Angeles, Calif., September 19, 1947; The Key to NATO’s Survival.’’ American Enterprise Institute Defense Re- attended public schools of Lockhart, Tex.; graduated, view 6 (1977): 2-13. Kimball High School, Dallas, Tex., 1966; B.A., University of Texas, Austin, 1971; businessman; president and founder BARTLETT, Edward Lewis (Bob), a Delegate from the of manufacturing company; member, city council, Dallas, Territory of Alaska and a Senator from Alaska; born in Tex., 1977-1981; delegate, Texas State Republican conven- Seattle, King County, Wash., April 20, 1904; attended the tions, 1972-1982; elected as a Republican to the Ninety- University of Washington 1922-1924, and University of Alas- eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served ka 1924-1925; reporter, Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News- from January 3, 1983, until his resignation March 11, 1991; Miner 1925-1933; secretary to Delegate Anthony J. Dimond is a resident of Dallas, Tex. of Alaska 1933-1934; gold miner in Alaska 1936-1939; chair- man of the Unemployment Compensation Commission of BARTLETT, Ichabod, a Representative from New Alaska 1937-1939; appointed secretary of Alaska by Presi- Hampshire; born in Salisbury, N.H., July 24, 1786; received dent Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 30, 1939, and served a classical education and was graduated from Dartmouth until his resignation on February 6, 1944, to become a can- College, Hanover, N.H., in 1808; studied law; was admitted didate for Delegate to Congress; member of the Alaska War to the bar in 1811 and commenced practice in Durham, Council 1942-1944; elected as a Democrat, a Delegate to Strafford County, N.H.; moved to Portsmouth in 1816 and the Seventy-ninth and to the six succeeding Congresses continued the practice of law; clerk of the State senate in (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1959); was not a candidate 1817 and 1818; State solicitor for Rockingham County 1819- for renomination in 1958 having become a candidate for 1821; member of the State house of representatives 1819- the United States Senate; elected as a Democrat to the 1821; served as speaker in 1821; elected to the Eighteenth, United States Senate on November 25, 1958, and upon the Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1823- admission of Alaska as a State into the Union on January March 3, 1829); declined the appointment as chief justice 3, 1959, drew the two-year term beginning on that day and of the court of common pleas in 1825; again a member ending January 3, 1961; reelected in 1960 and again in of the State house of representatives 1830, 1838, 1851, and 1966, and served from January 3, 1959, until his death 1852; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1832; member in Cleveland, Ohio, December 11, 1968; interment in North- of the State constitutional convention in 1850; died in Ports- ern Lights Memorial Park, Fairbanks, Alaska. mouth, N.H., October 19, 1853; interment in Harmony Grove Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Naske, Claus M. Ed- Cemetery. ward Lewis ‘Bob’ Bartlett of Alaska: A Life in Politics. Fairbanks: Univer- sity of Alaska Press, 1979. BARTLETT, Josiah (father of Josiah Bartlett, Jr.), a Delegate from New Hampshire; born in Amesbury, Mass., BARTLETT, Franklin, a Representative from New York; November 21, 1729; attended the public schools; studied born in Worcester County, Mass., September 10, 1847; was medicine, and commenced practice in Kingston, N.H., in graduated from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1865 1750; was medical agent to Gen. John Stark at Bennington; and from Harvard University in 1869; attended Columbia member of the colonial legislature of New Hampshire 1765- College Law School in 1869; was admitted to the bar in 1775; Member of the Continental Congress in 1775, 1776 1870; attended Exeter College, Oxford University, England, and 1778; signer of the Articles of Confederation and second in 1870 and 1871; concluded the course at Columbia College signer of the Declaration of Independence; chief justice of Law School in 1873; served as a member of the constitu- the court of common pleas in 1778; became justice of the tional commission of the State of New York in 1890; delegate superior court in 1784 and chief justice in 1788; member to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1892; of the convention which framed the Federal Constitution elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth in 1787; in 1789 was elected to the United States Senate Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897); unsuccessful from New Hampshire, but declined, and at the same time candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; resigned as chief justice; Governor of the State of New colonel of Volunteers in the war with Spain in 1898; died Hampshire 1790-1794; member of the constitutional conven- in New York City on April 23, 1909; interment in Greenwood tion of 1792 which changed the title from president to that Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. of Governor; retired in 1794; died in Kingston, N.H., May 19, 1795; interment in the Plains Cemetery, in rear of the BARTLETT, George Arthur, a Representative from Ne- Universalist Church. vada; born in San Francisco, Calif., November 30, 1869; Bibliography: Bartlett, Josiah. The Papers of Josiah Bartlett. Edited by moved with his parents to Eureka, Eureka County, Nev.; Frank C. Mevers. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1979. attended the common schools; was graduated from the law department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in BARTLETT, Josiah, Jr. (son of Josiah Bartlett), a Rep- 1894; was admitted to the bar the same year and com- resentative from New Hampshire; born in Kingston, N.H., menced the practice of law in the courts of Nevada; district August 29, 1768; attended the common schools and was attorney of Eureka County, Nev., in 1889 and 1890; elected graduated from Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; studied med- as a Democrat to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses icine and commenced practice in Stratham, Rockingham (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1911); was not a candidate for County, N.H.; member of the State senate in 1809 and 1810; renomination in 1910; resumed the practice of law in Reno, elected as a Republican to the Twelfth Congress (March Nev.; appointed United States assistant district attorney for 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); resumed the practice of medicine; Biographies 619

treasurer of Rockingham County; again elected to the State 1940; resumed advertising business in New York City; died senate, in 1824, and served as president; presidential elector in New York City, on July 5, 1967; interment in Rock Hill in 1824 and supported John Quincy Adams; resumed the Cemetery, Foxboro, Mass. practice of medicine; died in Stratham, N.H., April 16, 1838; Bibliography: Bishop, Robert L. ‘‘Bruce Barton–Presidential Stage Man- interment in the Old Congregational Cemetery. ager.’’ Journalism Quarterly 43 (Spring 1966): 85-89; Nuechterlein, James A. ‘‘Bruce Barton and the Business Ethos of 1920’s.’’ South Atlantic Quar- BARTLETT, Roscoe Gardner, a Representative from terly 76 (Summer 1977): 293-308. Maryland; born in Moreland, Jefferson County, Ky., June 3, 1926; B.S., Columbia Union College, Takoma Park, Md., BARTON, David, a Senator from Missouri; born near 1947; M.S., University of Maryland, College Park, Md., 1948; Greeneville, N.C. (now Tennessee), December 14, 1783; read Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, Md., 1952; fac- law; admitted to the Tennessee bar; moved to the Territory ulty, University of Maryland, College Park, Md.,1948-1952; of Missouri in 1809; elected attorney general of the Territory faculty, Loma Linda School of Medicine, Loma Linda, Calif., in 1813; first circuit judge of Howard County in 1815 and 1952-1954; assistant professor, Howard University Medical presiding judge in 1816; member, Territorial house of rep- School, Washington, D.C., 1954-1956; unsuccessful candidate resentatives 1818 and served as speaker; member and presi- for election to the Ninety-eighth Congress in 1982; elected dent of the convention which formed the State constitution as a Republican to the One Hundred Third and to the five in 1820; upon the admission of Missouri as a State into succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1993-present). the Union was elected as a Democratic Republican (later Adams-Clay Republican) to the United States Senate; re- BARTLETT, Thomas, Jr., a Representative from elected in 1825 as an Adams Democrat and served from Vermont; born in Sutton, Caledonia County, Vt., June 18, August 10, 1821, to March 3, 1831; unsuccessful candidate 1808; attended the common schools; studied law; was admit- for reelection as an Anti-Jacksonian in 1830; chairman, ted to the bar in 1833 and commenced practice in Groton, Committee on Public Lands (Eighteenth through Twenty- Vt.; moved to Lyndon, Vt., in 1836 and continued the prac- first Congresses); member, State senate 1834-1835; died in tice of law; State’s attorney for Caledonia County 1839-1842; Boonville, Mo., on September 28, 1837; interment in Walnut member of the State senate in 1841 and 1842; served in Grove Cemetery. the State house of representatives in 1849, 1850, 1854, and Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Shoemaker, Floyd C. 1855; delegate to the State constitutional conventions in ‘David Barton, John Rice Jones, and : Three Missouri State 1850 and 1857; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second and Statehood Founders.’ Missouri Historical Review 65 (July 1971): 527- 43; Van Ravensway, Charles. ‘The Tragedy of David Barton.’ Missouri His- Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); chairman, Com- torical Society Bulletin 7 (October 1950): 35-56. mittee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Thirty-second Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1852 to BARTON, Joe Linus, a Representative from Texas; born the Thirty-third Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Waco, McLennan County, Tex., September 15, 1949; grad- in Lyndon, Vt., September 12, 1876; interment in Lyndon uated from Waco High School, Waco, Tex., 1968; B.A., Texas Town Cemetery, Lyndon Center, Vt. Agricultural & Mechanical University, College Station, Tex., 1972; M.S., Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., 1973; BARTLEY, Mordecai, a Representative from Ohio; born business executive; White House Fellowship, served as aide in Fayette County, Pa., December 16, 1783; attended school to Secretary of Energy James B. Edwards, 1981-1982; elect- in Virginia; moved to Ohio in 1809 and settled in Jefferson ed as a Republican to the Ninety-ninth and to the nine County; served in the War of 1812 as captain and was succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1985-present); chair, promoted to adjutant; settled on a farm in Richland County Committee on Energy and Commerce (One Hundred Eighth in 1814 and engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of Congress). the State senate in 1817 and 1818; elected register of the land office of Virginia military district school lands in 1818 BARTON, Richard Walker, a Representative from Vir- and served until his resignation in 1823, having been elected ginia; born at ‘‘Shady Oak,’’ near Winchester, Frederick to Congress; elected to the Eighteenth and to the three County, Va., in 1800; pursued academic studies; studied law; succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1831); de- was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Win- clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1830; resumed chester, Va.; member of the State assembly in 1823-1824, agricultural pursuits; moved to Mansfield in 1834 and en- 1832-1835 and 1839; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sev- gaged in mercantile pursuits; Governor of Ohio 1844-1846; enth Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); unsuccessful declined reelection and again engaged in agricultural pur- candidate for reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Con- suits; died in Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, October gress; resumed the practice of his profession in Winchester, 10, 1870; interment in Mansfield Cemetery. Va.; died on his estate, ‘‘Springdale,’’ near Winchester, Fred- erick County, Va., March 15, 1859; interment in the family BARTON, Bruce, a Representative from New York; born burying ground at ‘‘Springdale.’’ in Robbins, Scott County, Tenn., August 5, 1886; educated in the public schools of Ohio, Massachusetts, and Illinois; BARTON, Samuel, a Representative from New York; graduated from Amherst (Mass.) College in 1907; moved born in New Dorp, Richmond County, N.Y., July 27, 1785; to Chicago, Ill., in 1900 and engaged in literary and editorial attended the common schools; agent for Commodore pursuits; moved to New York City in 1912 and continued Vanderbilt’s steamship lines; served in the State militia as literary work; also engaged in the magazine and advertising a major in 1818 and as a colonel in 1833; member of the business; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fifth Con- State assembly in 1821 and 1822; served on the Andrew gress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Theodore Jackson reception committee in 1833; elected as a Jack- A. Peyser; reelected to the Seventy-sixth Congress and sonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835-March served from November 2, 1937, to January 3, 1941; was 3, 1837); was not a candidate for renomination in 1836; not a candidate for renomination but was an unsuccessful resumed his former pursuits in the steamship business; di- candidate for election in 1940 to the United States Senate; rector of the Tompkinsville Lyceum in 1842; died in New delegate to the Republican State convention in 1938 and Dorp, Richmond County, N.Y., January 29, 1858; interment to the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia in in Moravian Cemetery. 620 Biographical Directory

BARTON, Silas Reynolds, a Representative from Ne- 1869-1876; resigned and moved to Prescott, Ariz., in 1876, braska; born in New London, Henry County, Iowa, May where he engaged in business; died in Prescott, Ariz., April 21, 1872; moved to Hamilton County, Nebr., in 1873 with 25, 1878; interment in Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, his parents; was graduated from the Aurora High School Calif. and attended the Peru (Nebr.) State Normal School; engaged in agricultural pursuits and taught school; deputy treasurer BASS, Charles Foster (son of Perkins Bass), a Rep- of Hamilton County 1898-1901; grand recorder of the An- resentative from New Hampshire; born in Boston, Suffolk cient Order of United Workmen of Nebraska 1901-1908; County, Mass., January 8, 1952; graduated from Holderness president for two terms of the Grand Recorders’ Association School, Plymouth, N.H., 1970; A.B., Dartmouth College, of the United States; State auditor 1909-1913; during his Hanover, N.H., 1974; staff for United States Representative two terms as auditor and insurance commissioner was a William S. Cohen of Maine, 1974; staff for United States member of the National Executive Committee of Insurance Representative David F. Emery of Maine, 1975-1979; unsuc- Commissioners; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third cessful candidate for nomination to the Ninety-seventh Con- Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); was a candidate gress in 1980; delegate to New Hampshire constitutional for election to the Sixty-fifth Congress, but died before elec- convention, 1984; member of the New Hampshire general tion day in Grand Island, Hall County, Nebr., November court, 1982-1988; member of the New Hampshire state sen- 7, 1916; interment in Aurora Cemetery, Aurora, Hamilton ate, 1988-1992; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred County, Nebr. Fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1995-present). BARTON, William Edward (cousin of Courtney Walker Hamlin), a Representative from Missouri; born in Pickens BASS, Lyman Kidder, a Representative from New York; District (now County), S.C., April 11, 1868; in 1869 moved born in the town of Alden, Erie County, N.Y., November to Missouri with his parents, who settled in Crawford Coun- 13, 1836; attended the common schools and was graduated ty, near Bourbon; attended the public schools and the from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1856; studied law; Steelville Normal and Business Institute, Steelville, Mo.; was admitted to the bar in 1858 and commenced practice employed as a farm hand, miner, and in a railroad office; in Buffalo, N.Y.; district attorney for Erie County 1865-1872; taught school near Bourbon, Mo., 1889-1892; graduated from renominated in 1871, but declined to accept; unsuccessful the law department of the Missouri University at Columbia Republican candidate for election in 1870 to the Forty-sec- in 1894; was admitted to the bar the same year and com- ond Congress; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third menced practice in Houston, Mo.; delegate to the State judi- and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); cial conventions in 1896 and 1906; during the Spanish- because of ill health declined to be a candidate for renomina- American War served as a sergeant in Company M, Second tion in 1876; moved to Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1877 Regiment, Missouri Volunteer Infantry; prosecuting attorney and continued the practice of law; served as general counsel of Texas County in 1901 and 1902; judge of the nineteenth for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Co., from 1878 to judicial circuit 1923-1928; elected as a Democrat to the Sev- 1884; died in New York City, while on a visit, May 11, enty-second Congress (March 4, 1931-March 3, 1933); unsuc- 1889; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y. cessful candidate for renomination in 1932 to the Seventy- third Congress; again elected judge of the nineteenth judicial BASS, Perkins (father of Charles Foster Bass), a Rep- circuit of Missouri and served from 1934 to 1946; resumed resentative from New Hampshire; born in East Walpole, the private practice of law; died in Houston, Mo., July 29, Norfolk County, Mass., October 6, 1912; graduated from 1955; interment in Houston Cemetery. Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1934 and from Har- vard Law School in 1938; was admitted to the New Hamp- BARWIG, Charles, a Representative from Wisconsin; shire bar in 1938 and commenced the practice of law in born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, March 19, 1837; immi- Manchester, N.H.; law clerk to Judge Woodbury of First grated to the United States in 1845 with his parents, who Circuit Court of Appeals in 1941 and 1942; entered military settled in Milwaukee, Wis.; attended the public schools and service April 9, 1942, and served as air combat intelligence was graduated from the Spencerian Business College at Mil- officer with General Chennault’s Fourteenth Air Force in waukee in 1857; moved to Mayville in 1865 and engaged China from 1943 until discharged with rank of major in in the wholesale liquor business; mayor of Mayville 1886- 1945; awarded the Bronze Star Medal and from the Nation- 1888; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, alist Government of China received the Yun-Ma Medal for and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1895); distinguished and meritorious service; resumed practice of chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department law in Manchester and Peterborough, N.H.; member of the of the Treasury (Fifty-third Congress); unsuccessful can- New Hampshire house of representatives 1939, 1941, 1947, didate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; and 1951; served in the State senate 1949-1951 as president; engaged in the real estate business; died in Mayville, Wis., director and member of the executive committee of Bird on February 15, 1912; interment in Graceland Cemetery. & Son, Inc., East Walpole, Mass., 1948-1984; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth and to the three succeeding BASHFORD, Coles, a Delegate from the Territory of Ari- Congresses (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1963); was not a zona; born near Cold Spring, Putnam County, N.Y., January candidate for renomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth 24, 1816; attended the Wesleyan Seminary (now Genesee Congress but was an unsuccessful candidate for the United College), Lima, N.Y.; studied law; was admitted to the bar States Senate; Republican National Committeeman from in 1842; district attorney for Wayne County 1847-1850; re- New Hampshire, 1964-1968; selectman of Peterborough, signed in 1850 and moved to Oshkosh, Wis.; member of N.H., 1972-1976; is a resident of Peterborough, N.H. the Wisconsin senate in 1853 and 1855; first Republican Governor of Wisconsin 1855-1858; declined renomination; BASS, Ross, a Representative and a Senator from Ten- moved to Arizona in 1863; first attorney general of Arizona nessee; born on a farm in Giles County, near Pulaski, Tenn., 1864-1866; presiding officer of first Territorial Council in March 17, 1918; attended the public schools in Middle, 1865; elected as an Independent to the Fortieth Congress Tenn.; graduated from Martin College, Pulaski, Tenn., 1941; (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1869); secretary of state of Arizona served during the Second World War as a captain in the Biographies 621

Air Corps; owner of a soft-drink bottling plant, florist and 1793-1799; Governor of Delaware 1799-1801; appointed nurseryman 1946-1947; postmaster of Pulaski, Tenn., 1947- United States circuit judge by President in 1954; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to 1801; died on his estate, ‘Bohemia Manor,’ in Cecil County, the four succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, Md., August 15, 1815; interment Brandywine Cemetery, Wil- 1955, until his resignation November 3, 1964; elected in mington, Del. a special election on November 3, 1964, as a Democrat to Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Pattison, Robert E. the United States Senate to complete the unexpired term The Life and Character of Richard Bassett. Wilmington, Del.: Delaware caused by the death of Estes Kefauver and served from Historical Society, 1900. November 4, 1964, to January 2, 1967; unsuccessful can- BATE, William Brimage, a Senator from Tennessee; didate for renomination in 1966; owner of consulting firm born near Castalian Springs, Sumner County, Tenn., Octo- in Washington, D.C.; unsuccessful candidate for election to ber 7, 1826; completed an academic course of study; served the United States House of Representatives in 1976; was as a private in Louisiana and Tennessee regiments through- a resident of Miami Shores, Fla., until his death, January out the Mexican War; member, State house of representa- 1, 1993. tives 1849-1851; graduated from the law department of Leb- BASSETT, Burwell, a Representative from Virginia; anon University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1852; admitted to the born in New Kent County, Va., March 18, 1764; attended bar and commenced practice in Gallatin, Tenn.; elected at- the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; mem- torney general for the Nashville district in 1854; during ber of the State house of delegates 1787-1789; served in the Civil War served in the Confederate army, attained the the State senate 1794-1805; unsuccessfully contested the rank of major general, surrendered with the Army of the election of John Clopton to the Fourth Congress; elected Tennessee in 1865; after the war returned to Tennessee as a Republican to the Ninth and to the three succeeding and resumed the practice of law at Gallatin; elected Gov- Congresses (March 4, 1805-March 3, 1813); chairman, Com- ernor of Tennessee in 1882 and reelected in 1884; elected mittee on Claims (Twelfth Congress), Committee on Revisal as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1887; reelected and Unfinished Business (Twelfth Congress); unsuccessful in 1893, 1899, and again in 1905, and served from March candidate for reelection in 1812 to the Thirteenth Congress; 4, 1887, until his death in Washington, D.C., March 9, 1905; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth chairman, Committee on the Improvement of the Mississippi Congresses (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1819); again a member River and its Tributaries (Fifty-third Congress), Committee of the State house of delegates 1819-1821; elected to the on Military Affairs (Fifty-third Congress), Committee on Seventeenth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March Public Health and National Quarantine (Fifty-eighth and 4, 1821-March 3, 1829); unsuccessful candidate for reelection Fifty-ninth Congresses); funeral services were held in the in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress; died in New Kent Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in Mount County, Va., February 26, 1841. Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn. Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- BASSETT, Edward Murray, a Representative from New ography; Marshall, Park. A Life of William Bate, Citizen, Soldier, and York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., February 7, 1863; attended Statesman. Nashville: Cumberland Press, 1908; U.S. Congress. Memorial the public schools in Brooklyn and Watertown, N.Y., and Addresses. 59th Cong., 2nd sess., 1906-1907. Washington, D.C.: Govern- Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1881 and 1882; was ment Printing Office, 1907. graduated from Amherst (Mass.) College in 1884 and from BATEMAN, Ephraim, a Representative and a Senator Columbia Law School, New York City, in 1886; was admit- from New Jersey; born in Cedarville, N.J., July 9, 1780; ted to the New York State bar in 1886 and commenced attended the local schools and Nathaniel Ogden’s Latin practice in Buffalo, N.Y.; moved to New York City in 1892 school; apprenticed as a tailor in 1796; taught in the local and continued the practice of law; member of the Brooklyn school 1799-1801; studied medicine with a physician in 1801 School Board 1899-1903; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty- and at the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in eighth Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); declined 1802 and 1803; practiced in Cedarville; member, State house to be a candidate for renomination in 1904; resumed the of assembly 1808-1809, 1811, and 1813, serving as speaker practice of law; member of the New York Public Service in 1813; elected to the Fourteenth and to the three suc- Commission 1907-1911; chairman of the Heights of Build- ceeding Congresses (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1823); member, ings Commission 1913-1915; chairman of the Zoning Com- State council 1826 and served as president; elected to the mission in 1916 and 1917; appointed by Secretary Hoover United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death in 1922 as a member of the Department of Commerce, Advi- of Joseph McIlvaine and served from November 10, 1826, sory Committee on Zoning; writer on bankruptcy, eminent to January 12, 1829, when he resigned because of failing domain, and police power; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., October health; chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Twentieth 27, 1948; interment in Ashfield Plains Cemetery, Ashfield, Congress); died in Cedarville, Cumberland County, N.J., Mass. January 28, 1829; interment in Old Stone Church Cemetery, BASSETT, Richard (grandfather of Richard Henry Bay- Fairfield Township, N.J. ard and James Asheton Bayard, Jr.), a Senator from Dela- Bibliography: Sheppard, Charles E., ed. ‘‘Journal of Ephraim Bateman ware; born in Cecil County, Md., April 2, 1745; pursued of Fairfield Township, Cumberland County.’’ Vineland Historical Magazine preparatory studies; studied law; admitted to the bar and 13 (July 1928): 55-64; (October 1928): 80-89; 14 (January 1929): 106-14; (April 1929): 127-35; (July 1929): 154-62; (October 1929): 174-82; 15 (Janu- practiced in Delaware; captain of a Delaware troop during ary 1930): 210-17; (April 1930): 235-46. the Revolutionary War; member of the State constitutional conventions in 1776 and 1792; member, State senate 1782; BATEMAN, Herbert Harvell, a Representative from member, State house of representatives 1786; delegate to Virginia; born in Perquimans County, N.C., August 7, 1928; the convention which framed the Constitution of the United attended public schools of Virginia; graduated, Newport States in 1787; member of the Delaware convention which News High School, Newport News, Va., 1945; B.A., College ratified the Federal Constitution in 1787; elected to the of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., 1949; LL.B., United States Senate and served from March 4, 1789, to Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., 1956; March 3, 1793; chief justice of the court of common pleas served, United States Air Force, 1951-1953; teacher; admit- 622 Biographical Directory

ted to the Virginia bar, 1956; law clerk, United States Cir- member, State house of representatives 1808-1809; elected cuit Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, 1956- to the Twentieth and to the three succeeding Congresses 1957; partner, private law practice; member, Virginia senate, (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1835); chairman, Committee on 1968-1983; delegate, Virginia State Republican conventions, Military Pensions (Twenty-first Congress); declined to be a 1976-1982; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-eighth and candidate for renomination in 1834; elected as a Whig to to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from January the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term 3, 1983, until his death in Leesburg, Va., on September ending March 3, 1841, caused by the resignation of John 11, 2000. Davis and on the same day elected for the term commencing March 4, 1841, and served from January 13, 1841, until BATES, Arthur Laban (nephew of John Milton Thayer), his death in Washington, D.C., March 16, 1845; chairman, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Meadville, Committee on Pensions (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Crawford County, Pa., June 6, 1859; studied under tutors Congresses); interment in Bridge Street Cemetery, North- and was graduated from Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., ampton, Mass. in 1880; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1882; Bibliography: ‘‘Memoir of Hon. I.C. Bates, Late United States Senator attended Oxford University, England, in 1882 and 1883; from Massachusetts.’’ American Whig Review 3 (February 1846): 186-192. commenced the practice of law in Meadville, Pa., in 1884; also engaged in the newspaper publishing business in 1899; BATES, James, a Representative from Maine; born in city solicitor of Meadville 1889-1896; elected as a Republican Greene, Lincoln (now Kennebec) County, Maine, September to the Fifty-seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses 24, 1789; attended the common schools; studied medicine (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1913); declined to be a candidate at Harvard Medical University, Cambridge, Mass.; surgeon for renomination in 1912; delegate to the International during the War of 1812; physician; elected as a Jacksonian Peace Conference at Brussels in 1905 and at Rome in 1911; to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, resumed the practice of law and the publishing business 1833); hospital executive; died on February 25, 1882, in Yar- in Meadville; also engaged in banking; delegate to the Re- mouth, Maine; interment in the Old Oak Cemetery, publican National Convention in 1924; died in Meadville, Norridgewock, Somerset County, Maine. Pa., August 26, 1934; interment in Greendale Cemetery. BATES, James Woodson (brother of Edward Bates), a BATES, Edward (brother of James Woodson Bates), a Delegate from the Territory of ; born in Goochland Representative from Missouri; born in Belmont, Goochland County, Va., August 25, 1788; attended Yale College and County, Va., September 4, 1793; attended Charlotte Hall was graduated from Princeton College in 1807; studied law; Academy, Maryland; acted as sergeant in a volunteer bri- was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Virginia; gade during the War of 1812; moved to St. Louis, Mo., moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1816, and thence to the Post in 1814; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1817 and of Arkansas in 1819; elected as first Delegate from Arkansas practiced; circuit prosecuting attorney in 1818; member of to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses and served the State constitutional convention in 1820; State’s attorney from December 21, 1819, to March 3, 1823; unsuccessful in 1820; member of the State house of representatives in candidate for reelection in 1822 to the Eighteenth Congress; 1822; United States district attorney 1821-1826; elected to resumed the practice of law in Batesville, Ark.; judge of the Twentieth Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1829); un- the fourth judicial circuit of 1824-1828; successful candidate for reelection in 1828 to the Twenty- judge of the superior court of Arkansas 1828-1832; delegate first Congress; resumed the practice of law; member of the to the Arkansas state constitutional convention in 1835; State senate in 1830; again a member of the State house judge of the probate court of Crawford County in 1836; of representatives in 1834; declined the appointment as Sec- register of the land office in Clarksville 1841-1845; died retary of War in 1850 in the Cabinet of President Fillmore; in Van Buren, Crawford County, Ark., December 26, 1846; judge of the St. Louis land court 1853-1856; presided at interment in the family burying ground at Moores Rock, the Whig National Convention in 1856; appointed by Presi- Crawford (now Sebastian) County, Ark. dent Lincoln as Attorney General of the United States and BATES, Jim, a Representative from California; born in served from March 5, 1861, to September 1864; died in Denver, Colo., July 21, 1941; graduated, East Denver High St. Louis, Mo., March 25, 1869; interment in Bellefontaine School, Denver, 1959; B.A., San Diego State University, Cemetery; removed from Bellefontaine Cemetery, place of 1975; corporal, U.S. Marine Corps, 1959-1963; banker and reinterment not known. aerospace businessman, 1963-1970; city councilman, San Bibliography: Bates, Edward. The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859-1866. Edited by Howard Kennedy Beale. Washington: Government Printing Of- Diego, 1971-1974; chairman, board of supervisors, San fice, 1933. Reprint, New York: Da Capo Press, 1971. Diego, 1975-1982; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety- eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, BATES, George Joseph (father of William Henry Bates), 1983-January 3, 1991); unsuccessful candidate for reelection a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Salem, Essex in 1990 to the One Hundred Second Congress and for nomi- County, Mass., February 25, 1891; attended the public nation in 1992 to the One Hundred Third Congress; is a schools; member of the State house of representatives 1918- resident of San Diego, Calif. 1924; served as mayor of Salem, Mass., 1924-1937; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fifth and to the six suc- BATES, Joseph Bengal, a Representative from Ken- ceeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1937, until tucky; born in Republican, Ky., October 29, 1893; attended his death in an airplane accident at the Washington (D.C.) the public schools and the Mountain Training School at National Airport on November 1, 1949; interment in St. Hindman, Ky.; was graduated from Eastern Kentucky State Mary’s Cemetery, Salem, Mass. Teachers College at Richmond in 1916; studied law; taught in the rural schools of Knott County, Ky., 1912-1915; high BATES, Isaac Chapman, a Representative and a Sen- school superintendent at Raceland, Ky., 1917-1919; county ator from Massachusetts; born in Granville, Mass., January clerk of Greenup County, Ky., 1922-1938; elected as a Demo- 23, 1779; tutored privately; graduated from Yale College crat to the Seventy-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused in 1802; admitted to the bar and commenced the practice by the resignation of Fred M. Vinson; reelected to the Sev- of law in Northampton, Hampshire County, Mass., in 1808; enty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served Biographies 623

from June 4, 1938, to January 3, 1953; unsuccessful can- of the State house of representatives in 1958 and 1959; didate for renomination in 1952, and was unsuccessful for elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh and to the the Democratic nomination in 1956 for the United States four succeeding Congresses, and served from January 3, Senate; engaged in the practice of law and was a resident 1961, until his resignation February 27, 1969, to become of Greenup, Ky.; died in Ashland, Ky., September 10, 1965; United States district judge for the District of Montana; interment in Bellefonte Memorial Gardens, Flatwoods, Ky. became chief judge, District of Montana on November 16, 1978; died September 27, 1996. BATES, Martin Waltham, a Senator from Delaware; born in Salisbury, Conn., February 24, 1786; attended the BATTLE, Laurie Calvin, a Representative from Ala- common schools; moved to Delaware and taught school for bama; born in Wilsonville, Shelby County, Ala., May 10, several years; studied medicine and later studied law; admit- 1912; graduated from Deshler High School, Tuscumbia, Ala., ted to the bar in 1822 and commenced practice in Dover, 1930; B.A., Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Kent County, Del.; member, State house of representatives Ala., 1934; attended Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., 1826; delegate to the State constitutional convention 1852; and Scarritt College, Nashville, Tenn., 1934 and 1935; M.A., elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1939; attended Uni- the vacancy caused by the death of John M. Clayton and versity of Alabama, 1946; United States Army, 1942-1946; served from January 14, 1857, to March 3, 1859; unsuccess- United States Army Reserves, 1946-1972; farm laborer; pro- ful candidate for reelection in 1858; resumed the practice fessor, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1940; insur- of law until his death in Dover, Del., January 1, 1869; inter- ance agent; professional advocate; elected as a Democrat ment in the Old Methodist Cemetery. to the Eightieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1955); was not a candidate BATES, William Henry (son of George Joseph Bates), for renomination in 1954, but was an unsuccessful candidate a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Salem, Essex for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate; County, Mass., April 26, 1917; attended the public schools; staff director and counsel of United States House of Rep- was graduated from Worcester Academy in 1936, from resentatives Committee on Rules, 1966-1976; special adviser, Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1940, and from Har- United States League of Savings Associations, Washington, vard Graduate School of Business Administration, Boston, D.C., 1976-1988; died on May 2, 2000, in Bethesda, Md.; Mass., in 1947; enlisted in the United States Navy in July interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. 1940 and served until February 14, 1950, resigning his com- mission as lieutenant commander after being elected to Con- BAUCUS, Max Sieben, a Representative and a Senator gress; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first Congress from Montana; born in Helena, Lewis and Clark County, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, George Mont., December 11, 1941; attended the public schools of J. Bates; reelected to the Eighty-second and to the nine Missoula and Helena, Mont.; attended Carleton College, succeeding Congresses and served from February 14, 1950, Northfield, Minn. 1959-1960; graduated, Stanford (Calif.) until his death in Bethesda, Md., June 22, 1969; chairman, University 1964 and Stanford University Law School 1967; Select Committee to Conduct Investigation and Study of admitted to the Montana Bar in 1969 and commenced prac- Benefits for Survivors of Deceased Members and Former tice in Washington, D.C. with various federal agencies; re- Members of the Armed Forces (Eighty-third Congress); inter- turned to Montana and practiced law in Missoula; served ment in St. Marys Cemetery, Salem, Mass. in the Montana house of representatives 1973-1974; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974; re- BATHRICK, Elsworth Raymond, a Representative from elected to the Ninety-fifth Congress and served from Janu- Ohio; born near Pontiac, Oakland County, Mich., January ary 3, 1975, until his resignation December 14, 1978; was 6, 1863; attended the country schools and was graduated not a candidate in 1978 for reelection to the House of Rep- from the Pontiac High School; moved to New York City resentatives, but was elected as a Democrat on November in 1890 and engaged in the importation of edible oils; moved 7, 1978 to the United States Senate for the term com- to Akron, Ohio, in 1900 and engaged in the real estate mencing January 3, 1979; subsequently appointed by the business; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and Governor on December 15, 1978 to fill the vacancy caused Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1915); un- by the resignation of Paul Hatfield for the term ending successful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty- January 3, 1979; reelected in 1984, 1990, 1996, and again fourth Congress; resumed his former business pursuits; in 2002 for the term ending January 3, 2009; chair, Com- elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress and served from March mittee on Environment and Public Works (1993-1995), Com- 4, 1917, until his death in Akron, Summit County, Ohio, mittee on Finance (January 3-20, 2001; June 6, 2001-Janu- December 23, 1917; interment in Glendale Cemetery. ary 3, 2003); vice chair, Joint Committee on Taxation (2001- 2003). BATTIN, James Franklin, a Representative from Mon- tana; born in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kans., February BAUMAN, Robert Edmund, a Representative from 13, 1925; moved with his parents to Montana in November Maryland; born in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, Pa., 1929; educated in the public schools of Billings, Mont.; grad- April 4, 1937; attended Easton High School, Easton, Md., uated from high school in 1942; enlisted in the United States until 1953; graduated, Capitol Page School, Library of Con- Navy and served for three years, two and a half years of gress, Washington, D.C., 1955; B.S., international affairs, which were in the Pacific theater; returned to his studies School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Wash- and graduated from Eastern Montana College in Billings, ington, D.C., 1959; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, Mont., in 1948; received the degree of Juris Doctor from Washington, D.C., 1964; admitted to the Maryland Bar in George Washington University School of Law, Washington, 1964; admitted to the District of Columbia bar; lawyer, pri- D.C., in 1951; was admitted to the bar and practiced law vate practice; delegate, Republican National Conventions, in Washington, D.C., for about a year; returned to Billings, 1964, 1974, 1978 and 1980; member, Federal Hospital Coun- Mont., in 1952 and continued in law; served as deputy coun- cil of the United States Department of Health, Education, ty attorney, secretary-counsel for the City-County Planning and Welfare, 1970-1973; member of the Maryland state sen- Board, assistant city attorney, and city attorney; member ate, 1971-1973; elected as a Republican by special election, 624 Biographical Directory

to the Ninety-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by ary 29, 1864, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on the death of United States Representative William O. Mills; Engrossed Bills (Thirty-second Congress), Committee on reelected to the three succeeding Congresses (August 21, Public Buildings (Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Con- 1973-January 3, 1981); unsuccessful candidate for reelection gresses), Committee on Judiciary (Thirty-fifth and Thirty- to the Ninety-seventh Congress in 1980; was a candidate sixth Congresses), Committee on Public Buildings and for nomination to the Ninety-eighth Congress in 1982, but Grounds (Thirty-fifth Congress); resumed the practice of law withdrew his candidacy before the election; is a resident in Wilmington; appointed in 1867 to the United States Sen- of Washington, D.C. ate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George Read Bibliography: Bauman, Robert E. The Gentleman From Maryland; The Riddle; was subsequently elected as a Democrat to that posi- Conscience of a Gay Conservative. New York: Arbor House, 1986. tion and served from April 5, 1867, to March 3, 1869; was not a candidate for reelection; again resumed the practice BAUMHART, Albert David, Jr., a Representative from of law; died in Wilmington, Del., June 13, 1880; interment Ohio; born in Vermilion, Erie County, Ohio, June 15, 1908; in the Old Swedes Burial Ground. attended the public schools; Ohio University, Athens, A.B. Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Bayard, James A. A and M.A., 1931; publishing house representative at Brief Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: With an Appendix Vermilion, Ohio, 1932-1939; member of the Ohio state sen- Containing the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confed- ate, 1937-1940; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sev- eration, and a Copious Index. 1833. Reprint. Littleton, CO: F. B. Rothman enth Congress (January 3, 1941-September 2, 1942); re- & Co., 1992. signed to accept a commission in the United States Navy BAYARD, James Asheton, Sr. (father of Richard Henry on September 2, 1942; discharged as a lieutenant com- Bayard and James Asheton Bayard, Jr., nephew of John mander, January 17, 1946; member of the public relations Bubenheim Bayard, grandfather of Thomas Francis Bayard, staff of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Toledo, Ohio, 1946- Sr., and great-grandfather of Thomas Francis Bayard, Jr.), 1953; director, Republican National Committee in 1953 and a Representative and a Senator from Delaware; born in 1954; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth, Eighty- Philadelphia, Pa., July 28, 1767; graduated from Princeton fifth, and Eighty-sixth Congresses (January 3, 1955-January College in 1784; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1787 3, 1961); was not a candidate for renomination in 1960; and commenced practice in Wilmington, Del.; declined the delegate to 1968 Republican National Convention; engaged appointment as Minister to France tendered by President as public relations consultant; died on January 23, 2001, John Adams in 1801; elected as a Federalist to the Fifth, in Lorain, Ohio; interment at Maple Grove Cemetery, Sixth, and Seventh Congresses (March 4, 1797-March 3, Vermilion, Ohio. 1803); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1802; one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives BAXTER, Portus, a Representative from Vermont; born in 1798 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against in Brownington, Orleans County, Vt., December 4, 1806; William Blount, a Senator from Tennessee; elected as a Fed- attended the common schools, Norwich Military Academy, eralist to the United States Senate in 1804 to fill the va- and the University of Vermont at Burlington; moved to cancy caused by the resignation of William Hill Wells; re- Derby Line, Orleans County, Vt., in 1828; presidential elec- elected in 1805 and 1811 and served from November 13, tor on the Whig ticket in 1852 and on the Republican ticket 1804, to March 3, 1813, when he resigned; appointed a mem- in 1856; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh, Thir- ber of the commission to negotiate peace with Great Britain ty-eighth, and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1861- in 1813; aided in negotiating the Treaty of Ghent, signed March 3, 1867); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in in December 1814; declined the appointment as Minister the Department of the Navy (Thirty-eighth Congress); de- to Russia tendered by President in 1815; clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1866; died in died in Wilmington, Del., August 6, 1815; interment at Bohe- Washington, D.C., March 4, 1868; interment in Strafford mia Manor, Cecil County, Md.; reinterment about 1842 in Cemetery, Strafford, Orange County, Vt. Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, Del. Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- BAY, William Van Ness, a Representative from Missouri; ography; Borden, Morton. The Federalism of James A. Bayard. 1955. Re- born in Hudson, N.Y., November 23, 1818; attended the print. New York: AMS Press, 1968; Donnan, Elizabeth. Papers of James public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar; moved Asheton Bayard, 1796-1815. 1915. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, to Union, Franklin County, Mo., in 1836 and commenced 1971. the practice of law; member of the State house of representa- tives 1844-1848; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first BAYARD, John Bubenheim (uncle of James Asheton Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); resumed the prac- Bayard, Sr.), a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born at Bohe- tice of law; appointed judge of the State supreme court in mia Manor, Cecil County, Md., August 11, 1738; moved to 1862; elected to this position in 1863 and served until re- Pennsylvania in 1756 and settled in Philadelphia, where he became one of the leading merchants; member of the moved by Governor Fletcher in 1865; moved to St. Louis, general assembly 1776-1779 and in 1784, serving several Mo., and again resumed the practice of law; retired in 1886 terms as speaker; member of the council of safety in 1776 and moved to Eureka, Mo., where he died February 10, and 1777; during the Revolutionary War was colonel of the 1894; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Kirkwood, St. Louis Second Regiment of Philadelphia Volunteers and served in County, Mo. the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Princeton; BAYARD, James Asheton, Jr. (son of James Asheton Member of the Continental Congress 1785-1786; moved to Bayard, Sr., brother of Richard Henry Bayard, grandson New Brunswick, N.J., in 1788; city mayor in 1790 and, of Richard Bassett, father of Thomas Francis Bayard, Sr., later, judge of the court of common pleas; died in New and grandfather of Thomas Francis Bayard, Jr.), a Senator Brunswick, N.J., January 7, 1807; interment in the First from Delaware; born in Wilmington, Del., November 15, Presbyterian Churchyard. 1799; pursued classical studies; studied law; admitted to Bibliography: Wilson, James Grant. Colonel John Bayard (1738-1804) and the Bayard Family of America. New York: Trow’s Printing and Book- the bar and commenced practice in Wilmington; United binding Co., 1885. States district attorney for Delaware 1838-1843; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1851; reelected BAYARD, Richard Henry (son of James Asheton Bay- in 1857 and 1863 and served from March 4, 1851, to Janu- ard, Sr., brother of James Asheton Bayard, Jr., and grand- Biographies 625

son of Richard Bassett), a Senator from Delaware; born in bassador to Great Britain 1893-1897; died in Dedham, Wilmington, Del., September 26, 1796; graduated from Mass., on September 28, 1898; interment in Old Swedes Princeton College in 1814; studied law; admitted to the bar Cemetery, Wilmington, Del. in New Castle, Del., in 1818 and commenced practice in Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- Wilmington; first mayor of Wilmington in 1832; elected as ography; Tansill, Charles. The Congressional Career of Thomas F. Bayard. an Anti-Jacksonian to the United States Senate to fill the Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1946. vacancy caused by the resignation of Arnold Naudain and BAYH, Birch Evans (father of Evan Bayh), a Senator served from June 17, 1836, to September 19, 1839, when from Indiana; born in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Ind., Janu- he resigned to become chief justice of Delaware; chairman, ary 22, 1928; attended the public schools; served in the Committee on Private Land Claims (Twenty-seventh Con- United States Army 1946-1948; graduated Purdue Univer- gress), Committee on District of Columbia (Twenty-seventh sity School of Agriculture at Lafayette in 1951; attended Congress), Committee on Naval Affairs (Twenty-seventh and Indiana State University, Terre Haute, 1952-1953; grad- Twenty-eighth Congresses); served as chief justice of Dela- uated Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, 1960; ware 1839-1841, when he resigned; elected again to the was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1961 and commenced United States Senate, as a Whig, to fill the vacancy which practice in Terre Haute; farmer and lawyer; member, State had existed since his own resignation in 1839 and served house of representatives 1954-1962, serving as minority from January 12, 1841, to March 3, 1845; was not a can- leader in 1957 and 1961 and as speaker in 1959; elected didate for reelection in 1845; charge d’affaires to Belgium as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1962; reelected 1850-1853; died in Philadelphia, Pa., March 4, 1868; inter- in 1968 and 1974 and served from January 3, 1963, to ment in the Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery, Wil- January 3, 1981; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in mington, Del. 1980; chairman, Select Committee on Intelligence (Ninety- Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- fifth and Ninety-sixth Congresses); lawyer practicing in ography. Washington, D.C. Bibliography: Bayh, Birch. One Heartbeat Away: Presidential Disability BAYARD, Thomas Francis, Jr. (son of Thomas Francis and Succession. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1968; Bayh, Birch. ‘‘The Bayard, Sr., and grandson of James Asheton Bayard, Jr.), Twenty-fifth Amendment: Dealing with Presidential Disability.’’ Wake For- a Senator from Delaware; born in Wilmington, Del., June est Law Review 30:3 (Fall 1995). 4, 1868; attended the common schools of Wilmington and St. Paul’s School, Concord, N.H.; graduated from Yale Uni- BAYH, Evan (son of Birch Evan Bayh), a Senator from versity in 1890; a student at the Yale Law School in 1890 Indiana; born on December 26, 1955; J.D. Hoosier College; and 1891; admitted to the Delaware bar in 1893 and com- Governor of Indiana 1989-1997; attorney and partner with menced practice in Wilmington; moved to New York City, Baker & Daniels 1997-1998; elected as a Democrat to the and was appointed an assistant corporation counsel in 1897; U.S. Senate in 1998 and reelected in 2004 for term ending practiced law in New York until September 1901, when he January 3, 2011. returned to Wilmington, Del., to practice law; served as BAYLIES, Francis (brother of ), a Rep- chairman of the Democratic State committee 1906-1916; so- resentative from Massachusetts; born in Taunton, Mass., licitor of the city of Wilmington 1917-1919; elected on No- October 16, 1783; studied law; was admitted to the bar vember 7, 1922, as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1810 and commenced practice in Taunton, Mass.; register to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Josiah O. of probate for Bristol County 1812-1820; unsuccessful can- Wolcott; on the same day was also elected for the full term didate for election in 1818 to the Sixteenth Congress; elected commencing March 4, 1923, and served from November 8, to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Congresses 1922, to March 3, 1929; unsuccessful candidate for reelection (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1827); unsuccessful candidate in in 1928; resumed the practice of law in Wilmington, Del.; 1827 for reelection to the Twentieth Congress; member of unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election to the United the State house of representatives 1827-1832; United States States Senate in 1930; died in Wilmington, Del., July 12, Charge´ d’Affaires to , 1832; again elected to the 1942; interment in Old Swedes Cemetery. State house of representatives in 1835; engaged in literary BAYARD, Thomas Francis, Sr. (son of James Asheton pursuits; died in Taunton, Bristol County, Mass., October Bayard, Jr., and father of Thomas Francis Bayard, Jr.), a 28, 1852; interment in the Old Plain Cemetery. Senator from Delaware; born in Wilmington, Del., October BAYLIES, William (brother of ), a Rep- 29, 1828; attended Doctor Hawkes’ school in Flushing, N.Y.; resentative from Massachusetts; born in Dighton, Mass., studied law; admitted to the bar in 1851 and commenced September 15, 1776; was graduated from Brown University, practice in Wilmington, Del.; appointed United States dis- Providence, R.I., in 1795; studied law; was admitted to the trict attorney for Delaware in 1853, but resigned in 1854; bar and commenced practice in Bridgewater (west parish) moved to Philadelphia and practiced law; returned to Wil- in 1799; member of the State house of representatives in mington in 1858; at the expiration of his father’s Senate 1808, 1809, 1812, and 1813; served in the State senate in term in 1869 was elected as a Democrat to the United States 1825 and 1826; presented credentials as a Federalist to the Senate; reelected in 1875 and 1881 and served from March Eleventh Congress and served from March 4, 1809, until 4, 1869, to March 6, 1885, when he resigned to become June 28, 1809, when he was succeeded by Charles Turner, Secretary of State; served as President pro tempore of the Jr., who contested the election; elected to the Thirteenth Senate during the Forty-seventh Congress; chairman, Com- and Fourteenth Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817); mittee on Engrossed Bills (Forty-third through Forty-fifth again a member of the State house of representatives in Congresses), Committee on Finance (Forty-sixth Congress), 1820 and 1821; again served in the State senate in 1830 Committee on Private Land Claims (Forty-seventh and and 1831; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty- Forty-eighth Congresses); appointed a member of the Elec- third Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); unsuccessful toral Commission created by the act of Congress approved candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Con- on January 29, 1877, to decide the contests in various States gress; resumed the practice of his profession; died in Taun- in the presidential election of 1876; Secretary of State in ton, Bristol County, Mass., on September 27, 1865; inter- the Cabinet of President Grover Cleveland 1885-1889; Am- ment in the Old Cemetery, Dighton, Mass. 626 Biographical Directory

BAYLOR, Robert Emmett Bledsoe (nephew of Jesse (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); was not a candidate for Bledsoe), a Representative from Alabama; born in Lincoln renomination in 1814; resumed agricultural pursuits and County, Ky., May 10, 1793; served in the War of 1812; the practice of law; again a member of the State house studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; member of delegates 1819, 1820, and 1828-1831; delegate to the State of the Kentucky house of representatives in 1819, but re- constitutional convention in 1829 and 1830; died on his plan- signed and moved to Alabama in 1820, continuing the prac- tation, ‘‘Mount Custis,’’ near Accomac, Accomac County, Va., tice of law; studied theology, was licensed to preach, and January 7, 1834; interment in the family cemetery on his was ordained to the Baptist ministry; member of the Ala- estate, ‘‘Mount Custis.’’ bama house of representatives in 1824; elected as a Jack- sonian to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829-March BAYNE, Thomas McKee, a Representative from Penn- 3, 1831); unsuccessful candidate for election in 1830 to the sylvania; born in Bellevue, Allegheny County, Pa., June 14, Twenty-second Congress; commanded an Alabama regiment 1836; attended the public schools and Westminster College, during the Creek War; moved to Texas in 1839; elected New Wilmington, Pa.; studied law; during the Civil War judge of the district and supreme courts of the Republic; entered the Union Army in July 1862 as colonel of the member of the convention that framed the State constitution One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Vol- of Texas in 1845; district judge for twenty-five years; one unteer Infantry; took part in the Battles of Fredericksburg of the founders of Baylor University at Independence, Tex. and Chancellorsville; resumed the study of law in 1865; (now located at Waco, Tex.), and Baylor Female College was admitted to the bar of Allegheny County in April 1866; at Belton, Tex.; professor of law in Baylor University; died elected district attorney for Allegheny County in October at Gay Hill, Washington County, Tex., on January 6, 1874; 1870 and held the office until January 1, 1874; unsuccessful interment in the Baylor University grounds; later the re- candidate for election in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; mains were removed to the campus of Baylor Female College elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the six at Belton, Tex. succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1891); was renominated as a candidate for reelection to the Fifty-second BAYLY, Thomas, a Representative from Maryland; born Congress, but declined to accept the nomination, retiring at ‘‘Wellington,’’ near Quantico, Somerset (now Wicomico) from public life and active business pursuits; died in Wash- County, Md., September 13, 1775; attended private schools ington, D.C., on June 16, 1894; interment in Uniondale Cem- and was graduated from Princeton College in 1797; studied etery, Pittsburgh, Pa. law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Somerset and Worcester Counties, Md.; member of the State house BEACH, Clifton Bailey, a Representative from Ohio; of delegates 1804-1814; elected as a Federalist to the Fif- born in Sharon, Medina County, Ohio, September 16, 1845; teenth Congress and reelected to the Sixteenth and Seven- moved to Cleveland with his parents in 1857; attended the teenth Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1823); resumed common schools and was graduated from Western Reserve the practice of law; died at his home, ‘‘Wellington,’’ near College, Hudson, Ohio, in 1871; studied law; was admitted Quantico, Md., in 1829; interment in the family cemetery to the bar in 1872 and commenced practice in Cleveland; on the grounds of his estate. served as deputy collector of customs at Cleveland; retired from the practice of law in 1884 and engaged in the manu- BAYLY, Thomas Henry (son of Thomas Monteagle facture of wire nails, staples, and rods; elected as a Repub- Bayly), a Representative from Virginia; born at ‘‘Mount lican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March Custis,’’ the family estate, near Drummondtown, Accomac 4, 1895-March 3, 1899); was not a candidate for renomina- County, Va., December 11, 1810; attended the common tion in 1898; resumed his former manufacturing pursuits schools and was graduated from the University of Virginia in Cleveland; died at Rocky River, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, at Charlottesville in 1829; studied law; was admitted to November 15, 1902; interment in , the bar in 1830 and commenced practice in Accomac County; Cleveland, Ohio. also engaged in agricultural pursuits; served in the Virginia house of delegates, 1836-1842; appointed brigadier general BEACH, Lewis, a Representative from New York; born of the Twenty-first Brigade, Virginia Militia, in 1837 and in New York City March 30, 1835; was graduated from served until 1842; elected judge of the superior court of the Yale Law School in 1856; was admitted to the bar the law and chancery in 1842 and served until 1844; elected same year and commenced practice in New York; took up as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress to fill the residence in Orange County, N.Y., in 1861; member and vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry A. Wise; re- treasurer of the Democratic State central committee 1877- elected to the Twenty-ninth and to the five succeeding Con- 1879; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh, Forty- gresses and served from May 6, 1844, until his death on eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses and served from March his estate, ‘‘Mount Custis,’’ near Drummondtown, Accomac 4, 1881, until his death at his home, ‘‘Knoll View,’’ Cornwall, County, Va., June 23, 1856; chairman, Committee on Ways Orange County, N.Y., August 10, 1886; chairman, Com- and Means (Thirty-first Congress), Committee on Foreign mittee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Forty-ninth Affairs (Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congress); interment Congress); interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, in the family burying ground on his estate. N.Y. BAYLY, Thomas Monteagle (father of Thomas Henry BEAKES, Samuel Willard, a Representative from Michi- Bayly), a Representative from Virginia; born at Hills Farm, gan; born in Burlingham, Sullivan County, N.Y., January near Drummondtown, Accomac County, Va., on March 26, 11, 1861; attended Wallkill Academy, Middletown, N.Y.; was 1775; attended Washington Academy, Maryland, and was graduated from the law department of the University of graduated from Princeton College in 1794; studied law; was Michigan at Ann Arbor, 1883; was admitted to the bar the admitted to the bar about 1796 and commenced practice same year and commenced practice in Westerville, Ohio; in Accomac County; also engaged in planting; member of editor and proprietor of the Westerville Review in 1884, the State house of delegates 1798-1801; member of the State of the Adrian (Mich.) Daily Record, 1884-1886, and of the senate 1801-1809; served during the War of 1812 as colonel Ann Arbor (Mich.) Argus, 1886-1905; mayor of Ann Arbor, of militia; elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress 1888-1890; postmaster of Ann Arbor, 1894-1898; city treas- Biographies 627

urer, 1891-1893 and 1903-1905; city assessor, 1906-1913; land County, Northumberland Academy and Rappahannock delegate to the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis Academy, Virginia, and Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.; in 1916; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and Sixty- studied law; was graduated from the University of Virginia fourth Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1917); success- at Charlottesville in 1837; was admitted to the bar in 1839 fully contested the election of Mark R. Bacon to the Sixty- and commenced practice at Hague, Westmoreland County, fifth Congress (December 13, 1917-March 3, 1919); unsuc- Va.; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress (March cessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-sixth Congress 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); declined to be a candidate for re- in 1918; after his service in Congress located in Washington, nomination in 1848; member of the Virginia constitutional D.C.; assistant chief of the industrial cooperation service convention in 1850-1851; member of the State senate 1858- of the United States Department of Commerce, April 1919- 1860; during the Civil War rose through a series of pro- July 1919; staff member of the United States Veterans’ Bu- motions from lieutenant to brigadier general in the Confed- reau, 1919-1927; died on February 9, 1927, in Washington, erate Army; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress to fill the D.C.; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich. vacancy caused by the death of Beverly B. Douglas; reelected to the Forty-sixth Congress and served from January 23, BEALE, Charles Lewis, a Representative from New 1879, to March 3, 1881; resumed the practice of law; died York; born in Canaan, Columbia County, N.Y., March 5, near Hague, Westmoreland County April 21, 1893; inter- 1824; was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., ment in Hickory Hill Cemetery. in 1844; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in Canaan, N.Y.; moved to Kinderhook, BEALES, Cyrus William, a Representative from Penn- N.Y., in 1852 and continued the practice of law; elected sylvania; born on a farm near York Spring, Adams County, as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, Pa., December 16, 1877; attended the common schools; at 1859-March 3, 1861); unsuccessful candidate for reelection the age of thirteen, upon the death of his father, took over in 1860 to the Thirty-seventh Congress; delegate to the the operation of his father’s farm; was graduated from the Union National Convention at Philadelphia in 1866; re- pharmaceutical department of the Ohio Northern University sumed the practice of law; died in Hudson, N.Y., on January at Ada in 1899; settled at York Springs and was employed 29, 1900; interment in Kinderhook Cemetery, Kinderhook, as a pharmacist; moved to Gettysburg, Pa., in 1903 upon N.Y. his appointment as mercantile appraiser of Adams County; clerk to the county commissioners in 1904 and 1905; en- BEALE, James Madison Hite, a Representative from gaged in the drug, banking, manufacturing, and printing Virginia; born in Mount Airy, Shenandoah County, Va., Feb- businesses; postmaster of Gettysburg from April 1, 1910, ruary 7, 1786; pursued preparatory studies; engaged in agri- to May 8, 1914; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth cultural pursuits; member, State house of delegates, 1818- Congress (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1917); was not a can- 1819; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twen- didate for renomination in 1916; member of the State senate ty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); chair- 1917-1921; engaged in the drug business in Gettysburg, and man, Committee on Invalid Pensions (Twenty-fourth Con- died there November 14, 1927; interment in the family plot gress); resumed agricultural pursuits; elected as a Democrat in Evergreen Cemetery. to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); chairman, Committee on Expenditures BEALL, James Andrew (Jack), a Representative from on Public Buildings (Thirty-first Congress), Committee on Texas; born on a farm near Midlothian, Ellis County, Tex., Manufactures (Thirty-second Congress); declined to be a can- October 25, 1866; attended the country schools; taught didate for renomination in 1852; resumed agricultural pur- school in 1884 and 1885; was graduated from the law de- suits; died in Putnam County, W.Va., August 2, 1866; inter- partment of the University of Texas at Austin in 1890; was ment in Beale Cemetery, near Gallipolis Ferry, Mason Coun- admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice ty, W.Va. in Waxahachie, Ellis County, Tex.; member of the State house of representatives 1892-1895; served in the State sen- BEALE, Joseph Grant, a Representative from Pennsyl- ate 1895-1899; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth vania; born in Allegheny County, near Freeport, Armstrong and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March County, Pa., March 26, 1839; attended the common schools; 3, 1915); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the De- was graduated from Caton Academy, Turtle Creek, Pa., and partment of Justice (Sixty-second Congress); was not a can- from Iron City Commercial College, Pittsburgh, Pa.; during didate for renomination in 1914; moved to Dallas, Tex., in the Civil War enlisted in the Friend Rifles for three months, 1914 and resumed the practice of law; also engaged in bank- and later served as captain of Company C, Ninth Regiment, ing; served as president of the Texas Electric Railway Co., Pennsylvania Reserves, for three years; was taken prisoner from 1921 until his death in Dallas, Tex., on February 12, and confined in Libby Prison, Richmond, Va., until released 1929; interment in Oakland Cemetery. on parole; studied law; served as major in the Pennsylvania State Militia; discontinuing the study of law, he engaged BEALL, James Glenn (father of John Glenn Beall, Jr.), in the coal business in the suburbs of Pittsburgh; moved a Representative and a Senator from Maryland; born in to Leechburg, Armstrong County, in the spring of 1868 and Frostburg, Allegany County, Md., June 5, 1894; attended actively engaged in the iron and steel business; president the public schools and Gettysburg College; during the First of the Leechburg Banking Co.; elected as a Republican to World War served in the Ordnance Corps, United States the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1909); unsuc- Army 1918-1919, being discharged as a sergeant; engaged cessful candidate for renomination in 1908 to the Sixty- in the insurance and real-estate business; member of the first Congress; resumed his former business pursuits; died Allegany County Road Commission 1923-1930; member, in Leechburg, Pa., May 21, 1915; interment in Evergreen State senate 1930-1934; member and chairman of the Mary- Cemetery. land State Road Commission 1938-1939; elected as a Repub- lican to the Seventy-eighth and to the four succeeding Con- BEALE, Richard Lee Turberville, a Representative gresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1953); was not a can- from Virginia; born in Hickory Hill, Westmoreland County, didate for reelection in 1952; elected to the United States Va., May 22, 1819; attended private schools in Westmore- Senate as a Republican in 1952, reelected in 1958 and 628 Biographical Directory

served from January 3, 1953, to January 3, 1965; unsuccess- cumseh in 1841 and practiced law there and in Clinton; ful candidate for reelection in 1964; returned to Frostburg, moved to Adrian in 1843, having been appointed prosecuting Md., and resumed his insurance business; died in Frostburg, attorney for Lenawee County, and served until 1850; city Md., January 14, 1971; interment in Frostburg Memorial attorney of Adrian; member of the convention that organized Park. the Republican Party ‘‘under the oaks’’ at Jackson, Mich., Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography. in 1854; delegate to the first Republican National Conven- tion, at Philadelphia in 1856; mayor of Adrian in 1856; BEALL, John Glenn, Jr. (son of James Glenn Beall), judge of the probate court of Lenawee County 1856-1860; a Representative and a Senator from Maryland; born in elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh and to the Cumberland, Allegany County, Md., June 19, 1927; grad- four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1871); uated Yale University 1950; served in the United States chairman, Committee on Roads and Canals (Thirty-ninth Navy 1945-1946; member, general insurance firm of Beall, Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination in Garner & Geare, Inc.; elected to Maryland house of dele- 1870; returned to Adrian and resumed the practice of law; gates in 1962 and reelected in 1966; minority floor leader appointed judge of probate of Lenawee County in 1871, elect- 1963-1968; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-first Con- ed to the same position in 1872, and reelected in 1876; gress (January 3, 1969-January 3, 1971); was not a can- appointed United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused didate for reelection; was elected in 1970 as a Republican by the death of Zachariah Chandler in 1879, but declined to the United States Senate and served from January 3, the appointment owing to ill health; declined appointments 1971, to January 3, 1977; unsuccessful candidate for reelec- to the State supreme court and as United States Commis- tion in 1976; unsuccessful candidate in 1978 for election sioner of Indian Affairs; died in Adrian, Lenawee County, as Governor of Maryland; resumed the insurance business Mich., September 27, 1882; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. in Cumberland, Md.; is a resident of Frostburg, Md. BEAMER, John Valentine, a Representative from Indi- BEALL, Reasin, a Representative from Ohio; born in ana; born on a farm in Wabash County, Ind., November Montgomery County, Md., December 3, 1769; received a lim- 17, 1896; attended the public schools of Roann, Ind.; was ited schooling; served as an officer under General Harmer graduated from Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., in in 1790; appointed ensign in the United States Army March 1918; during the First World War served in the Field Artil- 7, 1792, and battalion quartermaster in 1793, and served lery; employed with Service Motor Truck Co., Wabash, Ind., under General Wayne in the campaign against the Indians; 1919-1921; representative for the Century Co., school text- moved to New Lisbon, Ohio, in 1803; was commissioned book publisher, New York and Chicago, 1921-1928; vice brigadier general of Volunteers in 1812; moved to Wooster, president and general manager, Wabash (Ind.) Baking Pow- Ohio, in 1815; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth der & Chemical Co., 1928-1941; vice president and sales Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John manager, Union Rock Wool Corp., Wabash, Ind., 1935-1942; S. Edwards and served from April 20, 1813, until his res- owner and operator of a farm near Wabash, Ind.; served ignation on June 7, 1814; served as register of the land in the State house of representatives in 1949 and 1950; offices at Canton and Wooster, Ohio, from 1814 to 1824; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the presided over the Whig mass convention held at Columbus, three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, Ohio, February 22, 1840; presidential elector on the Whig 1959); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the ticket in 1840; died in Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, Feb- Eighty-sixth Congress; member of the National Selective ruary 20, 1843; interment in Wooster Cemetery. Service Appeal Board from March 1960 until his resignation September 1, 1961; died in Anderson, Ind., September 8, BEAM, Harry Peter, a Representative from Illinois; born 1964; interment in Falls Cemetery, Wabash, Ind. in Peoria Ill., November 23, 1892; moved with his parents to Chicago, Ill., in 1899; attended St. Mary’s School, BEAN, Benning Moulton, a Representative from New Marshalltown, Iowa, and Holy Family School, Chicago, Ill., Hampshire; born in Moultonboro, Carroll County, N.H., on was graduated from St. Ignatius College, Chicago, Ill., in January 9, 1782; attended the public schools of Moultonboro 1912 and from the law department of Loyola University, and received private tutoring; engaged in teaching and in Chicago, Ill., in 1916; was admitted to the bar the same agricultural pursuits; selectman of Moultonboro 1811-1829 year and commenced practice in Chicago, Ill.; during the and 1832-1838; justice of the peace in 1816; trustee of Sand- First World War served as a seaman, first class, in the wich Academy in 1824; member of the State house of rep- United States Navy from May 1918 to December 1918; as- resentatives 1815-1823; served in the State senate 1824- sistant corporation counsel of Chicago 1923-1927; elected as 1826; again a member of the State house of representatives a Democrat to the Seventy-second and to the five succeeding in 1827; member of the Governor’s council in 1829; again Congresses and served from March 4, 1931, until his res- served in the State senate in 1831 and 1832, being president ignation on December 6, 1942; chairman, Committee on Me- the latter year; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third morials (Seventy-seventh Congress); elected as a judge of and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, the municipal court of Chicago in 1942, reelected in 1948, 1837); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1836; 1954, and 1960; engaged in legal practice and retired in resumed teaching and agricultural pursuits in Moultonboro, 1964; was a resident of Chicago, Ill., until his death there Carroll County, N.H., where he died February 6, 1866; inter- on December 31, 1967; interment in Holy Sepulcher Ceme- ment in Bean Cemetery. tery. BEAN, Curtis Coe, a Delegate from the Territory of Ari- BEAMAN, Fernando Cortez, a Representative from zona; born in Tamworth, Carroll County, N.H., January 4, Michigan; born in Chester, Vt., June 28, 1814; moved with 1828; upon the death of his father moved with his mother his parents to a farm in Franklin County, N.Y., in 1819; to Gilmanton, Belknap County, N.H., in 1837; attended attended the district schools and Malone Academy, Malone, Gilmanton Academy, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., N.Y.; taught school; moved to Rochester, N.Y., in 1836; stud- and Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.; moved to New York ied law; moved to Manchester, Mich., in 1838; was admitted City in the early fifties and was employed in the United to the bar and commenced practice in 1839; moved to Te- States customhouse; also engaged in the brokerage business; Biographies 629

studied law; was admitted to the bar but did not practice preme Court from 1844 to 1847, and was appointed chief extensively; moved to Tennessee in 1864 and settled in Co- justice in the latter year; declined another term of service lumbia and later in Nashville; member of the State house and resumed the practice of law; died in Utica, N.Y., May of representatives in 1867 and 1868; moved to Arizona Terri- 6, 1860; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery. tory and settled in Prescott in June 1868; engaged in min- ing; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1876 to the Forty- BEATTY, John, a Delegate and a Representative from fifth Congress; member of the Territorial senate in 1879; New Jersey; born in Neshaminy, Bucks County, Pa., Decem- elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth Congress (March ber 10, 1749; was graduated from the College of New Jersey 4, 1885-March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for reelection (now Princeton University) in 1769; studied medicine in in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress; returned to Arizona and Philadelphia and practiced in Bucks County; entered the resumed mining operations; moved to New York City in Revolutionary Army in 1775 and had attained the rank of 1889 but maintained his citizenship and business interests major when he was made prisoner at the surrender of Fort in Arizona; died in New York City on February 1, 1904; Washington; after his exchange was appointed commissary interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. general of prisoners with the rank of colonel May 28, 1778; resigned March 31, 1780, and resumed the practice of medi- BEARD, Edward Peter, a Representative from Rhode cine in Princeton, N.J.; member of the State council 1781- Island; born in Providence, R.I., January 20, 1940; attended 1783; Member of the Continental Congress in 1784-1785; Assumption Elementary School and Hope High School, Prov- appointed by President Lee as one of the special committee idence, R.I; Rhode Island National Guard, 1960-1966, where to receive and take leave of General Lafayette in the name he completed high school as well as a college-level course of the Continental Congress while it was in session at Tren- in agriculture; worked as painter; member of the Rhode ton on December 11, 1784; member of the State convention Island state house of representatives, 1972-1974; delegate, that adopted the Federal Constitution in 1787; member of Democratic National Convention, 1976; elected as a Demo- the State general assembly in 1789 and 1790, serving as crat to the Ninety-fourth and to the two succeeding Con- speaker; elected to the Third Congress (March 4, 1793- gresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1981); unsuccessful can- March 3, 1795); brigadier general of the Somerset Militia didate for reelection to the Ninety-seventh Congress in 1980; 1793-1796; secretary of state of New Jersey 1795-1805; owned and operated a tavern; director of elderly affairs, served as trustee of the College of New Jersey from 1787 City of Providence, R.I., 1986-2002; unsuccessful candidate until 1802; president of the Trenton Banking Co., from 1815 for Democratic nomination to the One Hundred Second Con- to 1826; died in Trenton, N.J., May 30, 1826; interment gress in 1990; is a resident of Providence, R.I. in First Presbyterian Church Cemetery. BEARD, Robin Leo, Jr., a Representative from Ten- BEATTY, John, a Representative from Ohio; born near nessee; born in Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn., August 21, Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio, December 16, 1828; attended 1939; attended Montgomery Bell Academy, Nashville, Tenn.; the common schools; entered the banking business in 1852, B.A., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., 1961; United and subsequently, with his brother, conducted a bank in States Marine Corps, first lieutenant, 1962-1965; United Cardington, Morrow County, Ohio; at the beginning of the Stares Marine Corps Reserves; State commissioner of per- Civil War volunteered as a private in the Third Regiment, sonnel, 1970-1972; delegate to Tennessee State Republican Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was appointed lieutenant colonel convention, 1972; delegate to Republican National Conven- in 1861; promoted to colonel in 1862 and took a prominent tion, 1972; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-third Con- part in the campaigns in the Southwest; commanded a regi- gress and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, ment at Perryville and a brigade at Stone River; commis- 1973-January 3, 1983); was not a candidate for reelection sioned brigadier general in 1863 and commanded a brigade to the United States House of Representatives in 1982, but at Tullahoma, Chickamauga, and Marion Ridge; elected as was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United a Republican to the Fortieth Congress to fill the vacancy States Senate; assistant secretary general for defense sup- caused by the death of Cornelius S. Hamilton; reelected to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses and served port, NATO, Brussels, 1984-1987 and 1992-1995; president from February 5, 1868, to March 3, 1873; chairman, Com- of an import-export company in Washington, D.C.; senior mittee on Enrolled Bills (Forty-first Congress), Committee fellow, Croton Institute; is a resident of Alexandria, Va. on Public Buildings and Grounds, (Forty-first Congress); BEARDSLEY, Samuel, a Representative from New York; moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1873 and organized the Citi- born in Hoosick, Rensselaer County, N.Y., February 6, 1790; zens Savings Bank, serving as its president until 1903, when pursued academic studies; taught school; studied law in he retired from active business pursuits; unsuccessful can- Rome, N.Y.; served as a lieutenant in the War of 1812 didate for the Republican nomination as Governor in 1882; and took part in the defense of Sackets Harbor in 1813; member of the State board of charities in 1886 and 1887; was admitted to the bar in 1815 and commenced practice died in Columbus, Ohio, December 21, 1914; interment in in Watertown; judge advocate in the State militia; returned Oakland Cemetery, Sandusky, Ohio. to Rome in 1816 and continued the practice of law; pros- BEATTY, William, a Representative from Pennsylvania; ecuting attorney in 1821; member of the State senate in born in Stewartstown, County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1787; im- 1823; moved to Utica, Oneida County, in 1823; United migrated to the United States in 1807 and settled in Butler, States attorney for the northern district of New York 1823- Butler County, Pa.; was a sergeant in Captain Thompson’s 1830; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second, Twenty- company in the War of 1812; sheriff of Butler County 1823- third, and Twenty-fourth Congresses and served from March 1826; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty- 4, 1831, to March 29, 1836, when he resigned; chairman, sixth Congresses (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1841); member Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty-fourth Congress); ap- of the State house of representatives 1840-1842; appointed pointed circuit judge in 1836; attorney general of the State deputy sheriff of Butler County; died in Butler, Pa., April of New York 1836-1838; elected as a Democrat to the Twen- 12, 1851; interment in the Old Butler Cemetery. ty-eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1843, to Feb- ruary 29, 1844, when he resigned to accept a judicial ap- BEATY, Martin, a Representative from Kentucky; born pointment; served as associate judge of the New York Su- in Abingdon, Va., on October 8, 1784; iron furnace operator; 630 Biographical Directory

salt manufacturer; rancher; farmer; member of the Kentucky the practice of law in Lexington; elected as a Democrat state senate, 1824-1828 and 1832; presidential elector, Clay to the Fortieth and to the three succeeding Congresses and Sergeant in 1832 and, Harrison and Granger in 1836; (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1875); appointed in May 1876 a unsuccessful candidate for election to the Twenty-first Con- member of the commission to define the boundary line be- gress in 1828 and to the Twenty-second Congress in 1830; tween Maryland and Virginia; elected to the United States elected as an Anti-Jackson to the Twenty-third Congress Senate in 1876; reelected in 1882, again in 1888, and served (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); unsuccessful candidate for from March 4, 1877, until his death in Washington, D.C., reelection to the Twenty-fourth Congress in 1834; member on May 3, 1890; Democratic Conference Chairman 1885- of the Kentucky state house of representatives, 1848; died 1890; chairman, Committee on Transportation Routes to the on June 17, 1856, in Belmont, Tex.; interment in Belmont Seaboard (Forty-sixth Congress); interment in Lexington Cemetery, Belmont, Tex. Cemetery, Lexington, Ky. Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses for James Beck. 51st BEAUMONT, Andrew, a Representative from Pennsyl- Cong., 2nd sess., 1890-1891. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Of- vania; born in Lebanon, New London County, Conn., Janu- fice, 1891. ary 24, 1790; moved to Pennsylvania in 1808; studied law but never practiced; collector of revenue in 1814; prothono- BECK, James Montgomery, a Representative from tary and clerk of the courts of Luzerne County, Pa., 1816- Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 9, 1861; at- 1819; member of the State house of representatives in 1821, tended the public schools and was graduated from Moravian 1822, and 1826; postmaster of Wilkes-Barre 1826-1832; College, Bethlehem, Pa., in 1880; employed as clerk for a elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty- railway company in 1880 and studied law at night; was fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); was not admitted to the bar in 1884 and commenced practice in a candidate for renomination; commissioner of public build- Philadelphia; admitted to the bar of New York City in 1903, ings in Washington, D.C., from November 5, 1846, to March and to the bar of England in 1922; served as assistant 3, 1847; again a member of the State house of representa- United States attorney for the eastern district of Pennsyl- tives, in 1849; died in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., September 30, vania 1888-1892 and as United States attorney 1896-1900; 1853; interment in Hollenback Cemetery. appointed by President William McKinley as assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in 1900 and BEAUPREZ, Bob, a Representative from Colorado; born served until his resignation in 1903; continued the practice in Lafayette, Boulder County, Colo., September 22, 1948; of law in Philadelphia, New York City, and Washington B.S., University of Colorado, 1970; farmer; business owner; from 1903 to 1921; was elected a bencher of Gray’s Inn chair, Republican State Central Committee of Colorado, in 1914, being the first foreigner in 600 years to receive 1999-2002; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred that distinction; also received decorations from France and Eighth Congress (January 3, 2003-present). Belgium; author of several books and articles on the First BECERRA, Xavier, a Representative from California; World War and on the Constitution of the United States; born in Sacramento, Sacramento County, Calif., January 26, appointed by President Warren G. Harding as Solicitor Gen- 1958; B.A., Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., 1980; J.D., eral of the United States in 1921 and served until his res- Stanford University School of Law, Stanford., Calif., 1984; ignation in 1925; resumed the practice of law; elected as lawyer, private practice; staff for California state Senator a Republican to the Seventieth Congress to fill the vacancy Art Torres, 1986; deputy attorney general, Office of the At- caused by the resignation of James M. Hazlett; reelected torney General, State of California, 1987-1990; member of to the Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Con- the California state assembly, 1990-1992; elected as a Demo- gresses and served from November 8, 1927, until his res- crat to the One Hundred Third and to the five succeeding ignation on September 30, 1934; resumed the practice of Congresses (January 3, 1993-present). law and was also engaged as an author; died in Washington, D.C., April 12, 1936; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery. BECK, Erasmus Williams, a Representative from Geor- Bibliography: Keller, Morton. In Defense of Yesterday; James M. Beck gia; born in McDonough, Henry County, Ga., October 21, and the Politics of Conservatism, 1861-1936. New York: Coward-McCann, 1833; attended the local schools of his native county, a pri- 1958. vate school, and Mercer University, Macon, Ga., for two BECK, Joseph David, a Representative from Wisconsin; years; in 1855, on account of ill health, returned to born near Bloomingdale, Vernon County, Wis., March 14, McDonough and began the study of law; moved to Griffin, 1866; attended the common schools; taught in the public Ga., in 1856 and continued his law studies; was admitted schools of the State for twelve years; was graduated from to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in Griffin, Ga.; the State Normal School, Stevens Point, Wis., in 1897 and served for a short period in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, but was invalided home on account of ill from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1903; clerk health; during the war was solicitor general of the Flint of the State bureau of statistics of Wisconsin in 1901; deputy circuit; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress commissioner of statistics in 1902; chief of the department to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas J. Speer of labor statistics 1903-1913; president of the International and served from December 2, 1872, to March 3, 1873; was Association of Labor Bureau Officials 1911-1913; chairman not a candidate for renomination in 1872; resumed the prac- of the Industrial Commission of Wisconsin 1913-1917; en- tice of his profession at Griffin, Ga.; judge of the city court gaged in agricultural pursuits and in stock raising near of Griffin from 1890 until his death in that city on July Viroqua, Vernon County, in 1917; elected as a Republican 22, 1898; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. to the Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1929); was not a candidate for BECK, James Burnie, a Representative and a Senator renomination, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the from Kentucky; born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, February Republican nomination for Governor of Wisconsin in 1928; 13, 1822; immigrated to the United States in 1838 and set- resumed agricultural pursuits; appointed a member of the tled in Wyoming County, N.Y.; moved to Lexington, Ky., State department of agriculture and markets in 1931 and in 1843 and was graduated from Transylvania University, served until his death in Madison, Wis., November 8, 1936; Lexington, Ky., in 1846; admitted to the bar and commenced interment in Viroqua Cemetery, Viroqua, Wis. 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BECKER, Frank John, a Representative from New BECKWITH, Charles Dyer, a Representative from New York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., August 27, 1899; moved with Jersey; born near Coveville, Saratoga County, N.Y., October his parents to Lynbrook, Nassau County, L.I., in November 22, 1838; attended private schools in Troy, N.Y., Philadel- 1905; attended the public schools of Lynbrook and Brown’s phia, Pa., Worcester, Mass., and a military institution in Business College, Jamaica, L.I.; during the First World War New Haven, Conn.; moved to Paterson, Passaic County, N.J., enlisted in the United States Army July 22, 1918, and in 1860 and engaged in the manufacture of iron; member served overseas in France and England; was discharged of the board of aldermen in 1882; mayor of Paterson, N.J., from the service on September 22, 1919; engaged in the 1885-1889; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Con- insurance business in Lynbrook, N.Y.; member of the State gress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate assembly of New York 1945-1953; director and later chair- for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; resumed man of board of Suburbia Federal Savings & Loan Associa- manufacturing pursuits; returned to the State of New York tion; delegate to each Republican National Convention from and settled on a farm in the town of Chatham, Columbia 1952 to 1964; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third County, in 1897 and engaged in the management of his and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953- farm until his death near Chatham Center, Columbia Coun- January 3, 1965); was not a candidate for renomination ty, N.Y., on March 27, 1921; interment in Chatham Center in 1964; president of real-estate and insurance company; Rural Cemetery. resided in Lynbrook, N.Y., where he died September 4, 1981; interment in Pine Lawn National Cemetery, Pinelawn, N.Y. BECKWORTH, Lindley Garrison, Sr., a Representative from Texas; born on a farm in the South Bouie community BECKHAM, John Crepps Wickliffe (grandson of near Mabank, Kaufman County, Tex., June 30, 1913; at- Charles Anderson Wickliffe and cousin of Robert Charles tended the rural schools, Abilene Christian College, East Wickliffe), a Senator from Kentucky; born in Wickland, near Texas State Teachers College, Commerce, Tex., Sam Hous- Bardstown, Nelson County, Ky., August 5, 1869; attended ton State Teachers College, Huntsville, Tex., and Southern the Roseland Academy at Bardstown and Central Univer- Methodist University, Dallas, Tex.; taught school in Upshur sity, Richmond, Ky.; high school principal; studied law; ad- County, Tex, for three years; attended the law department mitted to the bar in 1889 and commenced practice in of Baylor University, Waco, Tex., and the University of Bardstown in 1893; member, State house of representatives Texas at Austin; was admitted to the bar in 1937 and com- 1894-1898, serving as speaker in 1898; lieutenant governor menced practice in Gilmer, Tex.; member of the State house of Kentucky in 1899, becoming Governor upon the death of representatives 1936-1938; elected as a Democrat to the of the Governor, February 3, 1900; subsequently elected Seventy-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January Governor for the unexpired term ending December 8, 1903, 3, 1939-January 3, 1953); was not a candidate for renomina- and reelected for the term 1903-1907; elected as a Democrat tion in 1952, but was unsuccessful for the Democratic nomi- to the United States Senate in 1914 and served from March 4, 1915 to March 3, 1921; unsuccessful candidate for reelec- nation for United States Senator; resumed the practice of tion in 1920; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the law in Longview, Tex.; elected to the Eighty-fifth and to Department of Labor (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Con- the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1957-January gresses); resumed the practice of law in Louisville, Ky.; un- 3, 1967); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1966; successful candidate for Governor of Kentucky in 1927; un- judge, United States Custom Court, New York City, 1967- successful candidate for nomination to the United States 1968; resumed the practice of law; was a resident of Upshur Senate in 1936; died in Louisville, Ky., January 9, 1940; County, Gladewater, Tex. until his death at Tyler, March interment in Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky. 9, 1984; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery, Tyler, Tex. Bibliography: Finch, Glenn. ‘The Election of United States Senators in Bibliography: Kemper, Billie Bundick. ‘‘Lindley Beckworth: Grassroots Kentucky: The Beckham Period.’ Filson Club History Quarterly 44 (Janu- Congressman.’’ Master’s thesis, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1980. ary 1970): 38-50. BEDE, James Adam, a Representative from Minnesota; BECKNER, William Morgan, a Representative from born on a farm in North Eaton Township, Lorain County, Kentucky; born in Moorefield, Nichols County, Ky., June Ohio, January 13, 1856; attended the public schools of Ohio, 19, 1841; attended the public schools, Rand and Richeson Oberlin (Ohio) College, and Tabor (Iowa) College; read law Seminary, Maysville, Ky., and Centre College, Danville, Ky.; while learning the printing trade; taught school in Iowa, worked on a farm and was subsequently a clerk in a country Ohio, and Arkansas; editor and publisher of several news- store at Bethel, Bath County, Ky.; became a private tutor papers and periodicals; served as a representative for several and taught school for two years in Orangeburg and western newspapers in Washington, D.C., 1888-1891; en- Maysville; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1864 gaged in newspaper work at Pine City, Pine County, Minn.; and commenced practice in Winchester, Ky.; city judge in served as United States marshal for the district of Min- 1865; served as prosecuting attorney in 1866 and 1867; was nesota in 1894 during the great railway strike; elected as elected judge of Clark County in 1870; established the Clark a Republican to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth County Democrat in 1867, which he owned and edited for Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1909); unsuccessful a number of years; appointed State prison commissioner candidate for renomination in 1908 to the Sixty-first Con- in 1880; served as State railroad commissioner from 1882 gress; returned to Pine City; engaged as a publisher and until 1884, when he resigned; president of the interstate lecturer; moved to Duluth, Minn., in 1927 and engaged in educational conventions held in Louisville in 1883 and 1885; his former pursuits; also was interested in the St. Lawrence member of the State constitutional convention in 1890; mem- inland waterway project; died in Duluth, Minn., April 11, ber of the State house of representatives in 1893; chairman 1942; interment in Birchwood Cemetery, Pine City, Minn. of the Democratic State convention in 1893; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the vacancy BEDELL, Berkley Warren, a Representative from Iowa; caused by the death of Marcus C. Lisle and served from born in Spirit Lake, Dickinson County, Iowa, March 5, 1921; December 3, 1894, to March 3, 1895; unsuccessful candidate educated in Spirit Lake public schools; graduated, Spirit for renomination in 1894; resumed the practice of law; died Lake High School, 1939; attended Iowa State University, in Winchester, Ky., March 14, 1910; interment in Win- Ames, 1940-1942; engaged in fishing tackle business; found- chester Cemetery. er and chairman of Berkley & Co., Spirit Lake; served in 632 Biographical Directory

United States Army, first lieutenant, 1942-1945; member, tice in Shepherdstown; moved to Charlestown, Va., and con- Spirit Lake Board of Education, 1957-1962; unsuccessful tinued the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the candidate for election in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1845- delegate to Iowa State Democratic conventions, 1972-1974; March 3, 1849); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth and to the five in 1848 to the Thirty-first Congress; resumed the practice succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1987); of law; appointed Charge´ d’Affaires to Denmark on May was not a candidate for reelection in 1986; is a resident 24, 1853, and Minister Resident June 29, 1854, in which of Spirit Lake, Iowa. capacity he served until August 10, 1858, when he resigned; died in Shepherdstown, W.Va., November 26, 1858; inter- BEDFORD, Gunning (cousin of Gunning Bedford, Jr.), ment in Elmwood Cemetery. a Delegate from Delaware; born in Philadelphia, Pa., April Bibliography: Levin, Alexandra Lee. ‘‘Henry Bedinger of Virginia: First 7, 1742; became a major in the Continental Army in 1775; United States Minister to Denmark.’’ Virginia Cavalcade 29 (Spring 1980): lieutenant colonel in Haslet’s Regiment in 1776, being 184-91. wounded in the battle of White Plains; subsequently ap- pointed muster-master-general in 1776; was admitted to the BEE, Carlos (great-grandson of Thomas Bee), a Rep- bar in 1779; member of the Delaware general assembly from resentative from Texas; born in , Mexico, July 8, New Castle County 1784-1786; elected a Member of the 1867, where his parents had moved after the collapse of Continental Congress for the term 1786-1787 but declined the Confederacy; returned with his parents to San Antonio, to serve and resigned January 15, 1787; member of the Tex., in 1874; attended the public schools and the Agricul- Delaware convention in 1787 which ratified the Federal Con- tural and Mechanical College; studied law while working stitution; elected as Governor of Delaware in 1796 and as a railway mail clerk; was admitted to the bar in 1893 served until his death in New Castle, Del., September 30, and commenced practice in San Antonio, Tex.; United States 1797; interment in Immanuel Churchyard. commissioner for the western district of Texas in 1893; dis- trict attorney of the thirty-seventh judicial district 1898- BEDFORD, Gunning, Jr. (cousin of Gunning Bedford), 1905; chairman of the Democratic State convention in 1904; a Delegate from Delaware; born in Philadelphia, Pa., in delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1904 and 1747; was graduated from Princeton College in 1771; studied 1908; served as a member of the city school board of San law in Philadelphia; was admitted to the Delaware bar in Antonio 1906-1908; president of the county school board of 1779 and commenced practice in Dover, Del.; moved to Wil- Bexar County, Tex., 1912-1914; member of the State senate mington, Del.; Member of the Continental Congress 1783- 1915-1919; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress 1785; appointed attorney general of the State on April 26, (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for 1784, and served until September 26, 1789; appointed a reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; engaged commissioner to the convention held at Annapolis, Md., in in the practice of law in San Antonio, Tex., until his death September 1786 but did not attend; member of the Federal there on April 20, 1932; interment in the Confederate Ceme- constitutional convention at Philadelphia in 1787 and signed tery. the Constitution; delegate to the State convention that rati- fied the Federal Constitution in 1787; member of the State BEE, Thomas (great-grandfather of Carlos Bee), a Dele- senate in 1788; appointed United States judge for the dis- gate from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., in 1725; trict of Delaware September 26, 1789, which position he educated in Charleston, and later at Oxford University, Eng- held until his death in Wilmington, Del., March 30, 1812; land; studied law; was admitted to the bar at Charleston, interment in First Presbyterian Churchyard; reinterment at S.C., January 27, 1761, and practiced there; also engaged the Masonic Home of Delaware, on Lancaster Pike, two in planting; member of Commons House, Province of South miles west of Wilmington, Del. Carolina, for St. Pauls 1762-1764, for St. Peters 1765, and BEDINGER, George Michael (uncle of Henry Bedinger), for St. Andrews 1772-1776; justice of the peace in 1775; a Representative from Kentucky; born in Hanover, York Delegate to the First and Second Provincial Congresses 1775 County, Pa., December 10, 1756; attended an English school; and 1776; member of the State house of representatives moved to Virginia about 1762 and to Kentucky in 1779 1776-1779 and 1782, serving as speaker 1777-1779; took and settled at Boonesborough; adjutant in the expedition an active part in the Revolution and was a member of the against Chillicothe in May 1779; major in the Battle of council of safety in 1775 and 1776; law judge 1776-1778; Blue Licks, August 19, 1782; major in Drake’s Regiment member of the State legislative council 1776-1778; Lieuten- in 1791; major commanding the Winchester Battalion of ant Governor of South Carolina in 1779 and 1780; Member Sharpshooters in the St. Clair expedition in 1791; major of the Continental Congress 1780-1782; appointed judge of commanding the Third Sublegion of the United States Infan- the United States Court for the District of South Carolina try from April 11, 1792, to February 28, 1793; member of by President Washington June 14, 1790; published reports the State house of representatives of the first legislature of the district court of South Carolina in 1810; died in Pen- of Kentucky in 1792; served in the State senate in 1800 dleton, S.C., February 18, 1812; interment in Woodstock and 1801; elected as a Republican to the Eighth and Ninth Cemetery, Goose Creek, S.C. Congresses (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1807); engaged in agri- BEEBE, George Monroe, a Representative from New cultural pursuits; died at Blue Licks Springs, Ky., December York; born in New Vernon, Orange County, N.Y., October 7, 1843; interment in the family cemetery on his farm near 28, 1836; attended the common schools, and Walkill Acad- Lower Blue Licks Springs, Ky. emy, Middletown, N.Y.; studied law and was graduated from Bibliography: Dandridge, Danske. George Michael Bedinger: A Kentucky Pioneer. Charlottesville, Va.: Michie Co., printers, 1909. the Albany Law University in 1857; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Monticello, BEDINGER, Henry (nephew of George Michael Sullivan County, N.Y.; moved to Peoria, Ill., in 1857 and Bedinger), a Representative from Virginia; born near became editor of the Central Illinois Democrat; moved to Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, Va. (now West Virginia), Troy, Doniphan County, Territory of Kansas, in 1858 and February 3, 1812; attended the common schools; studied continued the practice of law; member of the Territorial law; was admitted to the bar in 1832 and commenced prac- council in 1858 and 1859; appointed by President Buchanan Biographies 633

as secretary of the Territory in 1859; Acting Governor in 17, 1833; moved with his parents to Morgan County, Ala., 1860 and 1861; moved to St. Joseph, Mo., in 1861 and to in 1847 and to Mississippi in 1849; received an academic Virginia City, Nev., in 1863, continuing the practice of his education; taught school for several years; engaged in mer- profession; unsuccessful candidate for associate judge of the cantile pursuits; served as a lieutenant in the Confederate State supreme court in 1865; returned to Monticello, N.Y., Army during the Civil War; member of the State house and became editor of the Republican Watchman in 1866; of representatives 1883-1891; connected with the Farmers’ unsuccessful candidate for the State senate in 1871; member Alliance and served as chairman of its executive committee; of the State assembly in 1872 and 1873; commissioned by delegate to several State conventions; elected as a Democrat Governor Dix as chief of artillery with the rank of colonel to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); in the Fifth Division, National Guard of New York, in 1873; was not a candidate for reelection in 1892; engaged in agri- resigned in 1874 to enter Congress; elected as a Democrat cultural pursuits until his death near Lena, Scott County, to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, Miss., July 31, 1909; interment in Beeman Cemetery, Lena, 1875-March 3, 1879); chairman, Committee on Expenditures Miss. in the Department of the Navy (Forty-fourth Congress), Committee on Mines and Mining (Forty-fifth Congress); un- BEERMANN, Ralph Frederick, a Representative from successful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Nebraska; born near Dakota City, Dakota County, Nebr., Congress; resumed his former newspaper pursuits; delegate August 13, 1912; attended public schools, South Sioux City, to the Democratic National Conventions in 1876, 1880, and Nebr.; Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa, and Army spe- 1892; member of the State court of claims from 1883 until cialist schools; during the Second World War served in the 1900; resided at Monticello until 1892 when he moved to United States Army for three years in African-European Ellenville, N.Y.; retired from active business pursuits in Theaters in the Six Hundred and First Ordnance Battalion, 1900; died in Ellenville, Ulster County, N.Y., on March 1, Three Hundred and First Ordnance Regiment; engaged in 1927; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Newburgh, N.Y. partnership with six brothers (Beermann Bros.) in farming, cattle feeding, and alfalfa dehydrating in Dakota County, BEECHER, Philemon, a Representative from Ohio; born Nebr.; chairman of Dakota County Republican Central Com- in Kent, Litchfield County, Conn., in 1775; received a clas- mittee for ten years; organized Dakota County Young Re- sical education; studied law; was admitted to the bar and publicans; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh practiced; moved to Lancaster, Ohio, in 1801 and continued and to the Eighty-eighth Congresses (January 3, 1961-Janu- the practice of law; member of the State house of representa- ary 3, 1965); unsuccessful candidate in 1964 for reelection tives in 1803 and 1805-1807, serving as speaker in 1807; to the Eighty-ninth Congress; resumed business pursuits; unsuccessful candidate in 1807 for election to the United died in an airplane crash at Sioux City Municipal Airport, States Senate, and also as judge of the Ohio Supreme Court; Iowa, February 17, 1977; interment in Dakota City Ceme- major general in the State militia; elected to the Fifteenth tery, Dakota City, Nebr. and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1820 to the Seven- BEERS, Cyrus, a Representative from New York; born teenth Congress; elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and in Newtown, Conn., June 21, 1786; moved with his parents Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1829); un- to New York City; obtained a limited education in the public successful candidate for reelection in 1828 to the Twenty- schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits and also in the lum- first Congress; engaged in the practice of law in Lancaster, ber business; moved to Ithaca, N.Y., in 1821 and engaged Fairfield County, Ohio, until his death there November 30, in the mercantile business; delegate to the Democratic State 1839; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. convention at Herkimer in 1830; appointed commissioner of deeds at Ithaca in 1837; elected as a Democrat to the BEEDY, Carroll Lynwood, a Representative from Twenty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the Maine; born in Phillips, Franklin County, Maine, August death of Andrew D. W. Bruyn and served from December 3, 1880; attended the public schools of Lewiston, 3, 1838, to March 3, 1839; was not a candidate for renomina- Androscoggin County, Maine; was graduated from Bates Col- tion in 1838; delegate to the New York and Erie Railroad lege, Lewiston, Maine, in 1903 and from the law department Convention at Ithaca in 1839; resumed his former business of Yale University in 1906; was admitted to the bar in pursuits in Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y., where he died 1907 and commenced practice in Portland, Maine; pros- June 5, 1850, interment in the City Cemetery. ecuting attorney of Cumberland County 1917-1921; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the six suc- BEERS, Edward McMath, a Representative from Penn- ceeding Congresses (March 4, 1921-January 3, 1935); chair- sylvania; born in Nossville, Huntingdon County, Pa., May man, Committee on Mileage (Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth 27, 1877; attended the public schools; moved with his par- Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in the Department ents to Mount Union, Pa., in 1889; was graduated from of Labor (Sixty-ninth Congress), Committee on Elections No. Mount Union High School in 1895; upon the death of his 1 (Seventieth and Seventy-first Congresses); unsuccessful father, succeeded him in the hotel business in 1895; also candidate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Con- interested in agricultural pursuits; delegate to the Repub- gress; engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C., lican State convention at Harrisburg in 1898; mayor of until his death there August 30, 1947; interment in Ever- Mount Union 1910-1914; member of the board of directors green Cemetery, Portland, Maine. of the First National Bank of Mount Union and of the Grange Trust Co. of Huntingdon, Pa.; associate judge of BEEKMAN, Thomas, a Representative from New York; Huntingdon County 1914-1923; elected as a Republican to born in Wayne County, N.Y., birth date unknown; town the Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and clerk of Smithfield, N.Y., 1824; elected to the Twenty-first served from March 4, 1923, until his death in Washington, Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1831); died in Peterboro, D.C., on April 21, 1932; interment in the Odd Fellows’ Ceme- N.Y.; death date unknown. tery, Mount Union, Pa. BEEMAN, Joseph Henry, a Representative from Mis- BEESON, Henry White, a Representative from Pennsyl- sissippi; born near Gatesville, Gates County, N.C., November vania; born in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pa., September 634 Biographical Directory

14, 1791; attended the public schools; engaged in agricul- BEIDLER, Jacob Atlee, a Representative from Ohio; tural pursuits; colonel in the Fayette County Militia; elected born in Tredyffrin Township, near Valley Forge, Chester as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the County, Pa., November 2, 1852; attended the country vacancy caused by the resignation of Enos Hook and served schools, and Locke’s Seminary, Norristown, Pa.; moved to from May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843; unsuccessful candidate Ohio and settled in Willoughby, Lake County, in 1873; en- for reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress; re- gaged in business as a coal dealer and later as an operator; sumed agricultural pursuits; died in North Union Township, elected a member of the city council of Willoughby in 1881; near Uniontown, Pa., October 28, 1863; interment in Oak moved to his farm, ‘‘Belle Vernon,’’ near Willoughby, in 1881 Hill Cemetery. and engaged in raising dairy cattle; president of the Belle Vernon-Mapes Dairy Co.; vice president of the Cleveland, BEGG, James Thomas, a Representative from Ohio; Painesville & Eastern Railroad Co.; elected as a Republican born on a farm near Lima, Allen County, Ohio, February to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Con- 16, 1877; attended the public and high schools of Columbus gresses (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1907); owing to ill health Grove, and Lima (Ohio) College; was graduated from the declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1906 to the Wooster (Ohio) University in 1903; taught school; super- Sixtieth Congress; resumed his former business activities; intendent of public schools at Columbus Grove 1905-1910, president of the Rhodes & Beidler Coal Co.; member of at Ironton, Ohio, 1910-1913, and at Sandusky, Ohio, 1913- the State board of agriculture; died at ‘‘Belle Vernon,’’ near 1917; employed as a campaign director and lectured Willoughby, Lake County, Ohio, September 13, 1912; inter- throughout the United States for the American City Bureau ment in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio. of New York in chamber-of-commerce work 1917-1919; elect- ed as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the four suc- BEILENSON, Anthony Charles, a Representative from ceeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1929); was not California; born in New Rochelle, Westchester County, N.Y., a candidate for renomination in 1928 to the Seventy-first October 26, 1932; attended schools in Mt. Vernon, N.Y.; Congress; engaged in the banking business; unsuccessful graduated, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., 1950; B.A., candidate for election in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Con- Harvard University, 1954; LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1957; gress; business consultant and dairy farmer; moved to Okla- admitted to the California Bar in 1957 and commenced prac- homa City, Okla., in 1959, where he resided until his death tice in Beverly Hills; served in California State assembly, March 26, 1963; interment in Garfield-Lakeview Cemetery, 1963-1966; California State senate, 1967-1976; elected as Cleveland, Ohio. a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1977-January 3, 1997); was not a BEGICH, Nicholas Joseph, a Representative from Alas- candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fifth Congress; ka; born in Eveleth, Saint Louis County, Minn., April 6, chairman, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (One 1932; attended the Eveleth public schools and Eveleth Jun- Hundred First Congress). ior College; St. Cloud State College, St. Cloud, Minn., B.A., 1952; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., M.A., BEIRNE, Andrew, a Representative from Virginia; born 1954; doctoral work at the Universities of Colorado and in Dangan, County Roscommon, Ireland, in 1771; received North Dakota; high school instructor, counselor and director, a classical education and was graduated from Trinity Uni- student personnel, 1952-1959; principal and superintendent, versity, Dublin, Ireland; immigrated to the United States Fort Richardson Schools, Alaska, 1959-1968; part-time in- in 1793 and settled in Union, Monroe County, Va.; engaged structor, University of Alaska, Anchorage branch, 1956-1968; in mercantile and agricultural pursuits; member of the State builder and manager of apartment houses in Anchorage be- house of delegates in 1807 and 1808; during the War of ginning in 1968; elected to Alaska State senate for two four 1812 served as captain of a rifle company and as colonel year terms, 1963-1971, serving as minority whip from 1967; of the Monroe County Militia; delegate to the Virginia con- elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second and to the Nine- stitutional convention in 1829 and 1830; member of the ty-third Congresses; disappeared while on a campaign flight State senate 1831-1836; elected as a Democrat to the Twen- from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska, October 16, 1972; served ty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1837-March from January 3, 1971, until December 29, 1972, at which 3, 1841); was not a candidate for reelection in 1840 to the time a presumptive death certificate was recorded in the Twenty-seventh Congress; resumed his former business ac- State of Alaska. tivities; died while on a visit in Gainesville, Sumter County, Ala., March 16, 1845; interment in the family burying BEGOLE, Josiah Williams, a Representative from ground at Union, Monroe County, Va. (now West Virginia). Michigan; born in Groveland, Livingston County, N.Y., Janu- Bibliography: White, Edward T. ‘‘Andrew and Oliver Beirne of Monroe ary 20, 1815; attended the public schools in Mount Morris County.’’ West Virginia History 20 (October 1958): 16-23. and Temple Hill Academy, Geneseo, N.Y.; moved to Flint, Genesee County, Mich., in August 1836; taught school in BEITER, Alfred Florian, a Representative from New 1837 and 1838; engaged in agricultural pursuits from 1839 York; born in Clarence, Erie County, N.Y., July 7, 1894; to 1856; school inspector; justice of the peace and township attended elementary schools, Williamsville (N.Y.) High treasurer; county treasurer 1856-1864; engaged in the lum- School, and Niagara University, Niagara Falls, N.Y.; moved ber business in 1863; member of the State senate in 1870 to Williamsville, N.Y., and engaged in the general merchan- and 1871; member of the city council for three years; dele- dising business from 1915 to 1929; supervisor of the town gate to the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia of Amherst, N.Y., 1930-1934; elected as a Democrat to the in 1872; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress Seventy-third and to the two succeeding Congresses (March (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was an unsuccessful can- 4, 1933-January 3, 1939); chairman, Committee on War didate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; Claims (Seventy-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for resumed the lumber business and later engaged in the man- reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; assistant ufacture of wagons; also engaged in banking; Governor of to the Secretary of the Interior in 1939 and 1940; elected Michigan 1883-1885; resumed his former business activities; to the Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941-January died in Flint, Mich., June 5, 1896; interment in Glenwood 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to Cemetery. the Seventy-eight Congress; owned and operated a hatchery Biographies 635

and feed business in Buffalo, N.Y., 1944-1948; president of 30, 1825; attended the common schools; engaged in the the National Customs Service Association 1949-1961; Deputy banking business at Syracuse, N.Y., in 1880; also interested Commissioner of Customs, Treasury Department, Wash- in the construction of railroads and public works; served ington, D.C., 1961-1964; retired and resided in Boca Raton, as mayor of Syracuse, N.Y., in 1877 and 1878; elected as Fla., where he died March 11, 1974; interment in Boca a Republican to the Fiftieth Congress to fill the vacancy Raton Cemetery. caused by the resignation of Frank Hiscock; reelected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses and BELCHER, Hiram, a Representative from Maine; born served from November 8, 1887, to March 3, 1895; was not in Hallowell, Maine, February 23, 1790; attended the rural a candidate for renomination in 1894; elected to the Fifty- schools and the local academy at Hallowell 1805-1807; stud- fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); was not a ied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice candidate for renomination in 1898; died in Syracuse, Onon- in Farmington, Kennebec County, Maine, in 1812; elected daga County, N.Y., January 1, 1904; interment in Oakwood town clerk of Farmington and served from 1814 to 1819; Cemetery. member of the State house of representatives in 1822, 1829, and 1832; served in the State senate in 1838 and 1839; BELFORD, James Burns (cousin of Joseph McCrum elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847- Belford), a Representative from Colorado; born in March 3, 1849); chairman, Committee on Mileage (Thirtieth Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pa., September 28, 1837; at- Congress); was not a candidate for reelection in 1848 to tended the common schools and Dickinson College, Carlisle, the Thirty-first Congress; engaged in the practice of his pro- Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859; moved fession until his death in Farmington, Maine, May 6, 1857; to California, Moniteau County, Mo., and commenced prac- interment in Center Meeting House Cemetery. tice; moved to La Porte, La Porte County, Ind., in 1860; member of the State house of representatives in 1867; ap- BELCHER, Nathan, a Representative from Connecticut; pointed an associate justice of the supreme court of Colorado born in Preston (now a part of Griswold), Conn., June 23, in 1870 and moved to Central City; moved to Denver in 1813; completed academic studies; was graduated from Am- 1883; upon the admission of Colorado as a State into the herst (Mass.) College in 1832; studied law at the Cambridge Union was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth Con- Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1836 and com- gress and served from October 3, 1876, until March 3, 1877; menced practice in Clinton, Conn.; moved in 1841 to New presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-fifth London, where he engaged in manufacturing tools, hard- Congress and served from March 4, 1877, until December ware, and kitchen utensils; member of the State house of 13, 1877, when he was succeeded by Thomas M. Patterson, representatives 1846 and 1847; served in the State senate who contested his election; elected to the Forty-sixth, Forty- in 1850; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1879-March (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); was not a candidate for 3, 1885); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the De- renomination in 1854; resumed his former manufacturing partment of the Treasury (Forty-seventh Congress); unsuc- pursuits; also engaged in banking; died in New London, cessful candidate for renomination in 1884; engaged in the New London County, Conn., June 2, 1891; interment in practice of law in Denver, Colo., until his death there Janu- Cedar Grove Cemetery. ary 10, 1910; interment in Riverside Cemetery. BELCHER, Page Henry, a Representative from Okla- BELFORD, Joseph McCrum (cousin of James Burns homa; born in Jefferson, Grant County, Okla., April 21, Belford), a Representative from New York; born in 1899, on the claim his father took in the opening of the Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa., August 5, 1852; attended Cherokee Strip; attended high school at Jefferson and Med- Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport, Pa., and was graduated ford, Okla.; student at Friends University, Wichita, Kans., from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1871; moved to and the University of Oklahoma at Norman; veteran of the Long Island, N.Y., in 1884 and engaged in teaching at the First World War; court clerk of Garfield County, Okla., 1934- Franklinville and Riverhead Academies; studied law; was 1938; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1936 and admitted to the bar in 1889 and commenced the practice commenced the practice of law in Enid, Okla.; municipal of law in Riverhead, Long Island, N.Y.; served as secretary judge, Enid, Okla., in 1938; eighth district chairman, ten and chairman of the Suffolk County Republican committee; years; State executive secretary of Republican Party; sec- clerk of the surrogate court; elected as a Republican to the retary to Congressman in 1941; member of Enid Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); was not Board of Education; elected as a Republican to the Eighty- a candidate for renomination in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Con- second and to the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1973); was not a candidate for renomination gress; delegate to the Republican National Convention at in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; was a resident of Philadelphia in 1900; resumed the practice of his chosen Midwest City, Okla., where he died August 2, 1980; inter- profession in Riverhead, Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y.; ment in Memorial Park Cemetery, Enid, Okla. also engaged in the banking business; served as surrogate of Suffolk County from 1904 to 1910; died suddenly in Grand BELDEN, George Ogilvie, a Representative from New Central Station, New York City, May 3, 1917; interment York; born in Norwalk, Conn., March 28, 1797; attended in Riverhead Cemetery, Riverhead, Long Island, N.Y. the public schools; studied law with Charles Baker, of Bloomingburg, N.Y.; was admitted to the bar and practiced BELKNAP, Charles Eugene, a Representative from in Monticello, Sullivan County, N.Y.; elected to the Twen- Michigan; born in Massena, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., Oc- tieth Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1829); resumed the tober 17, 1846; attended the common schools; Twenty-first practice of law; served as general of the Twenty-third Bri- Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, 1864-1865; manu- gade of Infantry of the State of New York in 1831; died factured wagons and sleighs; member of the board of edu- in Monticello, Sullivan County, N.Y., October 9, 1833; inter- cation of Grand Rapids, Mich., 1871-1878; served on the ment in the Old Cemetery on St. John Street. board of aldermen, Grand Rapids, Mich., 1880-1882; mayor of Grand Rapids, Mich., 1884; hospital executive; elected BELDEN, James Jerome, a Representative from New as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889- York; born in Fabius, Onondaga County, N.Y., September March 3, 1891); was not a candidate for renomination to 636 Biographical Directory

the Fifty-second Congress in 1890; elected to the Fifty-sec- of the city council of Kansas City 1926-1930; member of ond Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the committee to draft the administrative code which com- United States Representative Melbourne H. Ford (November prises the general law of Kansas City, Mo.; judge of the 3, 1891-March 3, 1893); unsuccessfully contested the election circuit court of Jackson County, Mo., from 1931 until his to the Fifty-third Congress; staff duty at Fort Oglethorpe resignation in 1934; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy- during the Spanish-American War; died on January 16, fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1929, in Grand Rapids, Mich.; interment in the Greenwood 1935-Januray 3, 1949); chairman, Committee on Elections Cemetery. No. 1 (Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses), Com- mittee on Insular Affairs (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth BELKNAP, Hugh Reid, a Representative from Illinois; Congresses); member of the Filipino Rehabilitation Commis- born in Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, September 1, 1860; at- sion in 1945 and 1946; was not a candidate for reelection tended the public schools, Adams Academy, Quincy, Mass., in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; resumed the practice and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; at the age of eight- of law; managing private investments; died in Kansas City, een entered the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Mo., January 21, 1978; interment in Blue Springs Cemetery, Co. and worked in various capacities until he retired in Blue Springs, Mo. 1892 to become superintendent of the South Side Rapid Transit Railroad of Chicago; successfully contested as a Re- BELL, Charles Keith (nephew of Reese Bowen Brabson), publican the election of Lawrence E. McGann to the Fifty- a Representative from Texas; born in Chattanooga, Tenn., fourth Congress; reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress and April 18, 1853; attended the public schools and Sewanee served from December 27, 1895, to March 3, 1899; unsuc- (Tenn.) College; moved to Texas in 1871; studied law; was cessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth admitted to the bar in 1874 and commenced practice in Congress; resided in Chicago, Ill., until 1901; appointed a Hamilton, Tex.; prosecuting attorney of Hamilton County paymaster in the United States Army with the rank of major in 1876; district attorney 1880-1882; delegate to the Demo- and served from February 2, 1901, until his death in cratic National Convention in 1884; member of the State Calamba, Laguna, P.I., November 12, 1901; interment in senate 1884-1888; judge of the twenty-ninth judicial district Arlington National Cemetery. of Texas 1888-1890; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty- third and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, BELL, Alphonzo, a Representative from California; born 1897); was not a candidate for renomination in 1896; re- in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., September 19, sumed the practice of law in Fort Worth, Tex.; attorney 1914; graduated from Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif., general of Texas 1901-1904; again resumed the practice of 1938; United States Army, 1942-1945; rancher; real estate law in Fort Worth, where he died April 21, 1913; interment investment; business executive; business owner; chairman, in East Oakwood Cemetery. Republican State Central Committee of California, 1956- 1959; member of the Republican National Committee, 1956- BELL, Charles Webster, a Representative from Cali- 1959; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh and fornia; born in Albany, N.Y., June 11, 1857; attended the to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1961-Janu- public schools; moved to California in 1877 and settled in ary 3, 1977); was not a candidate for reelection, but was Pasadena, Los Angeles County; engaged in fruit growing an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United and the real estate business; county clerk of Los Angeles States Senate in 1976; died on April 25, 2004, in Santa County 1899-1903; member of the State senate 1907-1912; Monica, Calif. elected as a Progressive Republican to the Sixty-third Con- gress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate BELL, Charles Henry (nephew of Samuel Bell and cous- for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; resumed in of James Bell), a Senator from New Hampshire; born his former business pursuits in Pasadena, Calif.; served as in Chester, Rockingham County, N.H., November 18, 1823; secretary of the Pasadena Mercantile Finance Corporation; graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1844; died in Pasadena, Calif., April 19, 1927; interment in Moun- studied law; admitted to the bar and practiced in Chester, tain View Cemetery. Great Falls, and Exeter, N.H.; county solicitor for ten years; member, State house of representatives 1858-1860, serving BELL, Chris, a Representative from Texas; born in as speaker in 1860; member, State senate 1863-1864, serv- Texas, November 23, 1959; B.J., University of Texas, Austin, ing as president in 1864; appointed as a Republican to the Tex., 1982; J.D., South Texas University, Houston, Tex., United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term begin- 1992; journalist; lawyer, private practice; member, Houston, ning March 4, 1879, and served from March 13, 1879, to Tex., city council, 1997-2001; elected as a Democrat to the June 18, 1879, when a successor was elected; was not a One Hundred Eighth Congress (January 3, 2003-January candidate for election to the Senate in 1879; resumed the 3, 2005); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 2004. practice of law at Exeter and also engaged in literary pur- suits; Governor of New Hampshire 1881-1883; president of BELL, Hiram, a Representative from Ohio; born in the State constitutional convention in 1889; president of the Salem, Vt., April 22, 1808; attended the public schools of New Hampshire Historical Society 1868-1887; died in Exe- his native city; moved with his parents to Hamilton, Ohio, ter, Rockingham County, N.H., November 11, 1893; inter- in 1826; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1829 and ment in Exeter Cemetery. commenced practice in Greenville, Darke County, Ohio; Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Bell, Charles H. The auditor of Darke County in 1829 and 1834; member of the Bench and Bar of New Hampshire. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894. State house of representatives in 1836, 1837, and 1840; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March BELL, Charles Jasper, a Representative from Missouri; 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); was not a candidate for renomina- born in Lake City, Hinsdale County, Colo., January 16, tion in 1852; engaged in the practice of his profession until 1885; attended the country schools in Jackson County, Mo., his death in Greenville, Ohio, December 21, 1855; interment Lees Summit (Mo.) High School, and the University of Mis- in the Greenville Cemetery. souri at Columbia; was graduated from Kansas City (Mo.) School of Law in 1913; was admitted to the bar the same BELL, Hiram Parks, a Representative from Georgia; year and commenced practice in Kansas City, Mo.; member born near Jefferson, Jackson County, Ga., January 19, 1827; Biographies 637

attended the public schools at Cumming, Forsyth County, the Toledo war in 1835; served as postmaster of Lower San- Ga.; taught school for two years, during which time he stud- dusky from November 14, 1838, to May 3, 1841; member ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced of the State house of representatives in 1844 and 1845; practice in Cumming; member of the secession convention mayor of Fremont, Ohio, in 1845 and 1846; elected as a in 1861 and opposed the secession ordinance; commissioner Whig to the Thirty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused from Georgia to solicit the cooperation of Tennessee in the by the death of Amos E. Wood and served from January formation of a southern confederacy; member of the State 7 to March 3, 1851; probate judge 1852-1855 and 1858- senate in 1861, but resigned to enter the Confederate Army; 1863; died in Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, May 4, during the Civil War was commissioned captain and later 1869; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. promoted to lieutenant colonel and colonel of the Forty-third Georgia Regiment; member of the Second Confederate Con- BELL, John, a Representative and a Senator from Ten- gress in 1864 and 1865; member of the Democratic State nessee; born near Nashville, Tenn., February 15, 1797; grad- executive committee 1868-1871; elected as a Democrat to uated from the University of Nashville in 1814; studied law; the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); admitted to the bar in 1816 and commenced practice in delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876; Franklin, Tenn.; member, State senate 1817; declined to was chosen a member of the Democratic National Committee be a candidate for reelection and moved to Nashville; elected from the State at large; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress to the Twentieth, and to the six succeeding Congresses to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Benjamin (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1841); Speaker of the House of H. Hill and served from March 13, 1877, to March 3, 1879; Representatives (Twenty-third Congress); chairman, Com- unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1878; member mittee on Indian Affairs (Twenty-first through Twenty-sixth of the State house of representatives in 1898 and 1899; Congresses, except for Twenty-third), Committee on Judici- served in the State senate in 1900 and 1901; died in Atlanta, ary (Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses); ap- Ga., August 17, 1907; interment in Cumming Cemetery, pointed by President William Henry Harrison as Secretary Cumming, Ga. of War March 5, 1841, and served until September 12, 1841, Bibliography: Bell, Hiram Parks. Men and things. By Hiram P. Bell, when he resigned; member, State house of representatives being reminiscent, biographical and historical. Atlanta: Press of the Foote in 1847; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate & Davies company, 1907. in 1847; reelected in 1853, and served from November 22, 1847, to March 3, 1859; unsuccessful candidate in 1860 for BELL, James (son of Samuel Bell, uncle of Samuel New- President of the United States on the Constitutional Union ell Bell, and cousin of Charles Henry Bell), a Senator from ticket; investor in ironworks at Cumberland Furnace in New Hampshire; born in Francistown, Hillsboro County, Chattanooga, Tenn.; died at his home on the banks of the N.H., November 13, 1804; attended Phillips Academy, Ando- Cumberland River, near Cumberland Furnace, September ver, Mass., and was graduated from Bowdoin College, Bruns- 10, 1869; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery, near Nash- wick, Maine, in 1822; studied law at Litchfield Law School, ville, Tenn. Litchfield, Conn.; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and com- Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Parks, Joseph H. menced practice in Gilmanton, N.H.; moved to Exeter in John Bell Of Tennessee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1831 and to Gilford in 1846; member, New Hampshire house 1950. of representatives 1846-1850; delegate to the State constitu- tional convention in 1850; unsuccessful candidate for Gov- BELL, John Calhoun, a Representative from Colorado; ernor of New Hampshire in 1854 and 1855; elected as a born near Sewanee, Franklin County, Tenn., December 11, Republican to the United States Senate for the term begin- 1851; attended public and private schools in Franklin Coun- ning March 4, 1855, and served from July 30, 1855, until ty; studied law in Winchester, Tenn., and was admitted his death in Laconia, Belknap County, N.H., May 26, 1857; to the bar in 1874; moved to Colorado in 1874 and com- interment in Exeter Cemetery, Exeter, N.H. menced practice in Del Norte, moving to Saguache, Colo., the same year; county attorney of Saguache County, Colo., BELL, James Martin, a Representative from Ohio; born from 1874 to May 1876; moved to Lake City, Colo., in 1876; in Huntingdon County, Pa., October 16, 1796; attended the elected county clerk of Hinsdale County in 1878; mayor of public schools; studied law in Steubenville, Ohio; was admit- Lake City in 1885; moved to Montrose, Montrose County, ted to the bar in 1817 and commenced practice in Cam- Colo., in 1886 and continued the practice of law; served bridge, Guernsey County, Ohio; served as major general of as judge of the seventh judicial district of Colorado from the Fifteenth Division, Ohio Militia; prosecuting attorney 1889 until his resignation in 1892, having been elected to of Guernsey County 1818-1832; member of the State house Congress; elected as a Populist to the Fifty-third and to of representatives 1826-1831, serving as speaker in 1830 the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, and 1831; master commissioner in 1827; justice of the peace 1903); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1902 to the in 1830; county school examiner in 1830; elected as an Anti- Fifty-eighth Congress; member of the United States Indus- Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833- trial Commission in 1900 and 1901; resumed the practice March 3, 1835); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 of law in Montrose, Colo.; judge of the Court of Appeals to the Twenty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law; of Colorado 1913-1915; again resumed the practice of law; served as mayor of Cambridge from 1838 to 1840; died in member of the State board of agriculture 1931-1933; died Cambridge, Ohio, on April 4, 1849; interment in Founders’ in Montrose, Colo., August 12, 1933; interment in the Cedar Burial Ground. Cemetery. BELL, John (of Ohio), a Representative from Ohio; born BELL, John Junior, a Representative from Texas; born in Pennsboro, Lycoming County, Pa., June 19, 1796; received in Cuero, De Witt County, Tex., May 15, 1910; attended a limited education; moved to Ohio in 1810 with his parents, the public schools; was graduated from the University of who settled in Greene County, near Xenia; moved to Lower Texas at Austin in 1932 and from its law school in 1936; Sandusky in 1823; city mayor in 1830; probate judge of was admitted to the bar in 1936 and commenced the practice Sandusky County several terms; commissioned major gen- of law in Cuero, Tex.; served in the State house of represent- eral of State militia in 1834; commanded Ohio forces in atives 1937-1947; president of a company operating com- 638 Biographical Directory

presses in Victoria, Shiner, Cuero, and Taft, Tex.; during BELL, Samuel Newell (grandson of Samuel Bell and the Second World War served as a private in the United nephew of James Bell), a Representative from New Hamp- States Army from May 1944 to March 1945; member of shire; born in Chester, Rockingham County, N.H., March the State senate 1947-1954; delegate to the Democratic Na- 25, 1829; attended school in Francestown, N.H., and Phillips tional Conventions in 1948 and 1952; elected as a Democrat Academy, Andover, Mass.; was graduated from Dartmouth to the Eighty-fourth Congress (January 3, 1955-January 3, College, Hanover, N.H., in 1847; studied law; was admitted 1957); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1956; law- to the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in Meredith, yer, rancher, and farmer; was a resident of Cuero, Tex., Belknap County, N.H.; elected as a Democrat to the Forty- until his death January 24, 1963; interment in Hillside Cem- second Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); unsuccess- etery. ful candidate for reelection in 1872 to the Forty-third Con- gress; elected to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875- BELL, Joshua Fry, a Representative from Kentucky; March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for reelection in 1876; born in Danville, Boyle County, Ky., November 26, 1811; resumed the practice of law in Meredith; also interested attended the public schools; was graduated from Centre Col- in large real estate holdings; served as president of several lege, Danville, Ky., in 1828; studied law in Lexington, Ky.; railroads and vice president of the New Hampshire Fire traveled in Europe for several years before admission to Insurance Co.; appointed chief justice of the superior court the bar; commenced practice in Danville, Boyle County, Ky.; of New Hampshire, but declined to accept; retired from pub- elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March lic life; died while on a visit in North Woodstock, N.H., 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); declined to be a candidate for re- February 8, 1889; interment in the Valley Cemetery, Man- nomination in 1846; secretary of state of Kentucky in 1849; chester, N.H. chosen by the legislature as one of six commissioners to the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in BELL, Theodore Arlington, a Representative from Cali- an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; fornia; born in Vallejo, Solano County, Calif., July 25, 1872; delegate to the Border State convention in 1861; nominated moved with his parents to St. Helena, Napa County, in in 1863 by the Union Democrats for Governor of Kentucky, 1876; attended the common schools; studied law; was admit- but declined to accept the nomination; member of the State ted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice at Napa, house of representatives 1862-1867; died in Danville, Ky., Calif.; district attorney of Napa County 1895-1903; elected August 17, 1870; interment in Bellevue Cemetery. as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903- March 3, 1905); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904 BELL, Peter Hansbrough, a Representative from Texas; to the Fifty-ninth Congress; moved to San Francisco in 1906 born in Spotsylvania County, Va., May 12, 1812; attended and continued the practice of his profession; unsuccessful the public schools; moved to Texas in 1836 during the war candidate for Governor of California in 1906 and 1910; dele- for Texan independence; participated in the Battle of San gate to the Democratic National Convention in 1908 and Jacinto; assistant adjutant general of the Texan forces in 1912; became affiliated with the Republican Party in 1921; 1837 and inspector general in 1839; served in the Mexican was accidentally killed near San Rafael, Marin County, War as captain of the Texas Volunteer Rangers in 1845 Calif., September 4, 1922; interment in Odd Fellows Ceme- and 1846 and as lieutenant colonel of mounted volunteers; tery, St. Helena, Calif. colonel of a Texan volunteer regiment in 1848 and 1849; Governor of Texas 1849-1853; elected as a Democrat to the BELL, Thomas Montgomery, a Representative from Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1853- Georgia; born in Nacoochee Valley, near Cleveland, White March 3, 1857); was not a candidate for renomination in County, Ga., March 17, 1861; attended the common schools, 1856; moved to North Carolina in 1857 and settled in Hali- a private school in Cleveland, Ga., and Moore’s Business fax County; died in Littleton, Halifax County, N.C., March University at Atlanta; taught in the public schools of Cleve- 8, 1898; interment in City Cemetery; reinterred Texas State land in 1878 and 1879; in the following year became em- Cemetery, Austin, Tex., 1930. ployed as a traveling salesman and was connected with many wholesale business houses at Atlanta, Ga., and Balti- BELL, Samuel (father of James Bell, grandfather of Sam- more, Md.; moved to Gainesville, Ga., in 1885 and continued uel Newell Bell, and uncle of Charles Henry Bell), a Senator his former pursuits; elected clerk of the superior court of from New Hampshire; born in Londonderry, N.H., February Hall County in 1898; reelected in 1900 and again in 1902 9, 1770; attended the common schools and New Ipswich and served until 1904; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty- Academy; graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, ninth and to the twelve succeeding Congresses (March 4, N.H., in 1793; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1796 1905-March 3, 1931); majority whip (Sixty-third Congress); and commenced practice in Francestown, N.H.; moved to unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1930; employed Amherst, N.H., in 1810 and to Chester, N.H., in 1812 and as a representative of a marble company; died in Gainesville, continued the practice of law; member, State house of rep- Ga., March 18, 1941; interment in Alta Vista Cemetery. resentatives 1804-1807, serving as speaker 1805-1807; mem- ber, State senate, serving as president of that body 1807- BELLAMY, John Dillard, a Representative from North 1809; member, state executive council 1809-1811; judge of Carolina; born in Wilmington, N.C., March 24, 1854; at- the State supreme court 1816-1819; Governor of New Hamp- tended the common schools and Cape Fear Military Acad- shire 1819-1823; elected as an Adams-Clay Republican (later emy; was graduated from Davidson College, Davidson, N.C., Adams and then Anti-Jacksonian) to the United States Sen- in 1873 and from the University of Virginia at Charlottes- ate in 1823; reelected in 1829, and served from March 4, ville in 1875; was admitted to the bar in 1875 and com- 1823, to March 3, 1835; was not a candidate for reelection menced the practice of law in Wilmington, N.C.; city attor- in 1834; chairman, Committee on Claims (Twenty-third Con- ney of Wilmington 1892-1894; member of the State senate gress); affiliated with the Whig Party upon its formation 1900-1902; delegate at large to the Democratic National in 1834; retired to his farm; died in Chester, N.H., on De- Conventions in 1892, 1908, and 1920; elected as a Democrat cember 23, 1850; interment in the Village Cemetery. to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses (March 4, Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- 1899-March 3, 1903); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- ography. tion in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress; resumed the prac- Biographies 639

tice of law in Wilmington, N.C.; also engaged as an author; gresses and served from March 4, 1881, to December 1, district counsel for the Seaboard Air Line Railway Co., the 1888, when he resigned to accept a diplomatic position; Southern Bell Telephone Co., and the Western Union Tele- chairman, Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings graph Co.; also connected with the street railway company (Forty-eighth Congress), Committee on Foreign Affairs and cotton mills in Wilmington, N.C.; appointed by Governor (Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses); declined to be a can- McLean as a commissioner from North Carolina to the cele- didate for renomination to Congress in 1888; United States bration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Minister to Spain in 1888 and 1889; delegate to the Demo- George Washington, held in Washington, D.C., in 1932; died cratic National Conventions in 1892, 1896, 1904, and 1912; in Wilmington, N.C., September 25, 1942; interment in during the Spanish-American War served as major and in- Oakdale Cemetery. spector general of the First Division, Second Army Corps, Bibliography: Bellamy, John Dillard. Memoirs of an Octogenarian. United States Volunteers; in 1905 successfully initiated and [Charlotte, N.C.: Observer Printing House, 1942]. organized the movement for the Federal and State cam- paign-publicity legislation, which was enacted into law in BELLINGER, Joseph, a Representative from South 1911, and was elected president of the National Association Carolina; born at Bellinger Plantation in Saint Bartholomew for Campaign Publicity Law; during the First World War Parish, Ashepoo, Colleton County, S.C., in 1773; planter and was commissioned a captain in the remount service; re- owner of ‘‘Aeolian Lawn’’ plantation; member of the State sumed the practice of law in New York City in 1920; author house of representatives 1802-1809 and of the State senate of a number of books pertaining to national and political from Barnwell District 1810-1813; elected as a Republican affairs; went abroad in 1932 for three years, residing mostly to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1819); at Paris, France; returned, and made Newport, R.I., his was not a candidate for reelection to the Sixteenth Congress; permanent residence; died at Newport, R.I., May 25, 1947; died at Charleston, S.C., January 10, 1830; interment in interment in Island Cemetery. the Bellinger private burial ground, Poco Sabo Plantation, Bibliography: Belmont, Perry. An American Democrat; The Recollections Ashepoo, S.C. of Perry Belmont. New York: Press, 1940. Reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1967. BELLMON, Henry Louis, a Senator from Oklahoma; born on a farm near Tonkawa, Kay County, Okla., Sep- BELSER, James Edwin, a Representative from Ala- tember 3, 1921; educated in Noble County public schools; bama; born in Charleston, S.C., December 22, 1805; attended graduated Oklahoma State University (then Oklahoma the public schools; in 1820 moved with his parents to Sum- A.&M. College) 1942; served in United States Marine Corps ter District, S.C., where he continued his schooling under 1942-1946; farmer and rancher; served in Oklahoma house a private tutor; moved to Alabama in 1825 and settled in of representatives 1946-1948; State Republican chairman Montgomery; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- 1960; elected Oklahoma’s first Republican Governor in 1962, menced practice in Montgomery; elected clerk of the county court; member of the State house of representatives in 1828; served 1963-1967; while in office, chairman, Interstate Oil edited the Planters Gazette for several years; appointed so- Compact Commission, and member, executive committee, licitor of Montgomery County in 1828 and later elected to National Governors Conference; elected as a Republican to that position; appointed by Governor Fitzpatrick in 1842 the United States Senate in 1968; reelected in 1974 and as a commissioner of the State to procure a settlement of served from January 3, 1969, to January 3, 1981; was not the claims against the Federal Government for money ad- a candidate for reelection in 1980; co-founder and co-chair- vanced in the Indian War of 1836; elected as a Democrat man of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget; to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, appointed director of the Oklahoma Department of Human 1845); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1844; Services 1983; elected Governor of Oklahoma 1986; is a resi- resumed the practice of law in Montgomery; affiliated with dent of Red Rock, Okla. the Whig Party in 1848; again elected a member of the Bibliography: Bellmon, Henry, with Pat Bellmon. The Life and Times State house of representatives in 1853 and reelected in 1857; of Henry Bellmon. Tulsa: Council Oak Books, 1992. died in Montgomery, Ala., January 16, 1859; interment in BELMONT, Oliver Hazard Perry (brother of Perry Bel- Oakwood Cemetery. mont), a Representative from New York; born in New York BELTZHOOVER, Frank Eckels, a Representative from City November 12, 1858; attended St. Paul’s School, Con- Pennsylvania; born in Silver Spring Township, Cumberland cord, N.H., and was graduated from the United States Naval County, Pa., November 6, 1841; attended Big Spring Acad- Academy, Annapolis, Md., June 10, 1880; was commissioned emy, Newville; was graduated from Pennsylvania College as a midshipman and served until June 1, 1881, when he at Gettysburg in 1862; studied law; was admitted to the resigned; at one time a member of the banking firm of bar in 1864 and commenced practice in Carlisle, Pa.; chair- August Belmont & Co., New York City; became publisher man of the Democratic committee of Cumberland County of the Verdict, a weekly paper; delegate to the Democratic 1868 and 1873; district attorney 1874-1877; delegate to the National Convention in 1900; elected as a Democrat to the Democratic National Convention in 1876; elected as a Demo- Fifty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1903); was crat to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March not a candidate for renomination in 1902; died in Hemp- 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); was not a candidate for renomina- stead, N.Y., on June 10, 1908; interment in Woodlawn Cem- tion in 1882; elected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Con- etery, New York City. gresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); chairman, Com- mittee on War Claims (Fifty-second and Fifty-third Con- BELMONT, Perry (brother of Oliver Hazard Perry Bel- gresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1894; re- mont), a Representative from New York; born in New York sumed the practice of law in Carlisle, Cumberland County, City December 28, 1851; attended Everest Military Acad- Pa.; discontinued the practice of his profession in 1910 and emy, Hamden, Conn., and was graduated from Harvard Uni- moved to Los Angeles, Calif., where he lived in retirement versity in 1872; studied civil law at the University of Berlin; until his death on June 2, 1923; interment in Ashland Ceme- was graduated from the Columbia Law School, New York tery, Carlisle, Pa. City, in 1876; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in New York City; elected as a Demo- BENDER, George Harrison, a Representative and a crat to the Forty-seventh and to the three succeeding Con- Senator from Ohio; born in Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 640 Biographical Directory

1896; attended the public schools; owner of an insurance menced practice in Los Angeles, Calif.; member of the State business; in 1934 founder, editor and publisher of the Na- house of representatives 1910-1914; served in the State sen- tional Republican magazine; member, State senate 1920- ate 1914-1916; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth 1930; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of States House of Representatives in 1930, 1932, 1934, and William D. Stephens and served from November 7, 1916, 1936; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to to March 3, 1917; was nominated by the Progressive Party the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-January for the Sixty-fifth Congress, but withdrew in behalf of the 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to Republican nominee; continued the practice of law and also the Eighty-first Congress; elected to the Eighty-second and engaged in banking; member of the State department of Eighty-third Congresses and served from January 3, 1951, finance of California (State board of control) from 1919 to until his resignation effective December 15, 1954; elected 1921; served as a member of the California State Railroad on November 2, 1954, as a Republican to the United States Commission from 1921 to 1923; resumed the practice of Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3, law in Los Angeles, Calif., until his death; died while on 1957, caused by the death of Robert A. Taft, and served a visit in London, England, July 10, 1930; interment in from December 16, 1954, to January 3, 1957; unsuccessful Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif. candidate for reelection in 1956; special assistant to Sec- retary of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 1957-1958; died BENET, Christie, a Senator from South Carolina; born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, June 18, 1961; interment in in Abbeville, Abbeville County, S.C., December 26, 1879; Knollwood Cemetery, Mayfield Heights, Cleveland, Ohio. attended the common schools, the College of Charleston, Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- the University of South Carolina at Columbia, and the Uni- ography; Bender, George. The Challenge of 1940. New York: G.P. Putnam’s versity of Virginia at Charlottesville; studied law; admitted Sons, 1940. to the bar and commenced practice in Columbia, Richland County, S.C., in 1903; solicitor of the fifth judicial circuit BENEDICT, Charles Brewster, a Representative from in 1908; attorney for the city of Columbia 1910-1912; three New York; born in Attica Township, Wyoming County, N.Y., times secretary of the Democratic State committee; ap- February 7, 1828; attended the public schools and Oberlin pointed on July 6, 1918, as a Democrat to the United States College, Oberlin, Ohio; taught school and also engaged in Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Benjamin agricultural pursuits; studied law; was admitted to the bar R. Tillman and served from July 6 to November 5, 1918, in 1856 and commenced practice in Attica, N.Y.; justice of when a successor was elected; unsuccessful candidate for the peace 1854-1860; engaged in banking in 1859; member election in 1918 to the Senate to fill the vacancy; chairman, of the board of supervisors of Wyoming County 1869-1871 Committee on National Banks (Sixty-fifth Congress); re- and 1873-1875, serving a part of the time as chairman; sumed the practice of law; member and later chairman of member of the Democratic State committee in 1875; elected the board of regents of South Carolina State Hospital 1915- as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877- 1946; during the Second World War served as chairman March 3, 1879); was not a candidate for renomination in of the War Finance Committee for South Carolina and was 1878; resumed banking in Attica, N.Y.; one of the organizers serving as chairman of the Alien Enemy Hearing Board of the First National Bank at Moorhead, Minn., and also for the eastern district of South Carolina at time of death; operated farming lands extensively in that vicinity; died in died in Columbia, S.C., March 30, 1951; interment in Elm- Attica, N.Y., October 3, 1901; interment in Forest Hill Ceme- wood Cemetery. tery. BENHAM, John Samuel, a Representative from Indiana; BENEDICT, Cleveland Keith, a Representative from born on a farm near Benham, Ripley County, Ind., October West Virginia; born in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pa., 24, 1863; attended the public schools, a business college March 21, 1935; attended the public schools; graduated, The in Delaware, Ohio, and a normal school in Brookville, Ind.; Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., 1953; B.A., Princeton University, taught school in the winter and attended college in the 1959; graduated, Graham School for Cattlemen, Graham, summer, being engaged as a teacher in various places in Kans., 1962; dairy farmer; chairman, West Virginia Board Indiana from 1882 to 1907; was graduated from Indiana of Probation and Parole, 1974-1975; commissioner, finance State Normal School at Terre Haute, Ind., in 1893 and from and administration, State of West Virginia, 1975-1977; Indiana University at Bloomington, Ind., in 1903; specialized chairman, West Virginia State Republican Executive Com- in history at the University of Chicago for several terms; mittee, 1977-1980; delegate, West Virginia State Republican superintendent of schools for Ripley County for fourteen conventions, 1964-1976; delegate, Republican National Con- years; returned to Benham, Ind., in 1907 and engaged in vention, 1984; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-seventh the timber, milling, and contracting business; also followed Congress (January 3, 1981-January 3, 1983); not a candidate agricultural pursuits; delegate to the Republican National for reelection in 1982 but was an unsuccessful candidate Convention in 1916; elected as a Republican to the Sixty- for election to the United States Senate; unsuccessful can- sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March didate for election to the Ninety-ninth Congress in 1984; 3, 1923); chairman, Committee on Expenditures on Public deputy assistant secretary, U.S. Department of Energy, Buildings (Sixty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate 1983; chairman, R.S.M., Inc., Washington, D.C., 1985-1986; for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; moved West Virginia State commissioner of agriculture, 1989-1993; to Batesville, Ripley County, Ind., in 1923 and engaged as unsuccessful candidate for governor of West Virginia in a building contractor; again superintendent of schools for 1992; is a resident of Lewisburg, W.Va. Ripley County, Ind., 1924-1929; retired from active business pursuits in 1931 and resided in Batesville, Ind., until his BENEDICT, Henry Stanley, a Representative from Cali- death there on December 11, 1935; interment in Benham fornia; born in Boonville, Cooper County, Mo., February 20, Church Cemetery, near Benham, Ind. 1878; moved with his parents to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1888; attended the grammar schools and high school; attended BENI´TEZ, Jaime, a Resident Commissioner from Puerto the University of Southern California College of Law, Los Rico; born in Vieques, P.R., October 29, 1908; B.L., George- Angeles, Calif.; was admitted to the bar in 1910 and com- town University, Washington, D.C., 1930; M.L., Georgetown Biographies 641

University, Washington, D.C., 1931; M.A., University of Chi- served until 1844; member of the State constitutional con- cago, Chicago, Ill., 1938; author; instructor, University of vention in 1845; elected as a Whig to the United States Puerto Rico, San Juan, P.R., 1931-1942; chancellor, Univer- Senate in 1853; reelected as a Democrat in 1859 and served sity of Puerto Rico, San Juan, P.R., 1942-1966; president, from March 4, 1853, to February 4, 1861, when he withdrew; University System of Puerto Rico, San Juan, P.R., 1966- chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims (Thirty-fourth 1971; member, Constitutional Convention of Puerto Rico, through Thirty-sixth Congresses); appointed Attorney Gen- and chairman, Committee on Bill of Rights, 1951-1952; eral under the provisional government of the Confederate member, United States National Commission for UNESCO, States, February 1861; appointed Acting Secretary of War 1948-1954; United States delegate, University Convention, of the Confederate States in August 1861 and served until Utrecht, Holland, 1948; National Convention of UNESCO, November 1861, when he was appointed Secretary of War; Paris, France, 1950, and Havana, Cuba, 1952; president, served in this capacity until February 1862, when he re- National Association of State Universities, 1957-1958; dele- signed to accept the appointment as Secretary of State in gate to Democratic National Convention, 1976; elected as the Cabinet of President Jefferson Davis, in which capacity a Popular Democrat to the United States House of Rep- he served until the end of the war; moved to Great Britain resentatives for a four-year term (January 3, 1973-January in 1865; studied English law at Lincoln’s Inn, London, was 3, 1977); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1976; pro- admitted to the bar in that city in 1866, and practiced fessor, Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, law there; engaged in newspaper and magazine work; re- P.R., 1980-1986; died on May 30, 2001, in San Juan, P.R. ceived the appointment of Queen’s counsel in 1872; retired in 1883 from active practice and public life; moved to Paris, BENJAMIN, Adam, Jr., a Representative from Indiana; France, and died there May 6, 1884; interment in Pere la born in Gary, Lake County, Ind., August 6, 1935; attended Chaise Cemetery. the public elementary schools of Gary; graduated, Kemper Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- Military (high) School, Boonville, Mo., 1952; B.S., United ography; Evans, Eli N. Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate. New States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., 1958; J.D., York: The Free Press, 1988; Osterweis, R.G. Judah P. Benjamin, States- Valparaiso (Ind.) Law School, 1966; admitted to the Indiana man of the Lost Cause. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1933. Bar in 1966 and commenced practice in Gary; served in United States Marine Corps, corporal, 1952-1954; United BENNER, George Jacob, a Representative from Penn- States Army, first lieutenant, 1958-1961; teacher, Edison sylvania; born in Gettysburg, Adams County, Pa., April 13, High School, Gary, 1961; employed as computer analyst, 1859; attended the public schools and was graduated from Chicago, Ill., 1962; served as zoning administrator, Gary, Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg in 1878; taught school 1964-1965; executive secretary to the mayor of Gary, 1965- for several years; studied law; was admitted to the Adams 1967; served in Indiana house of representatives, 1967-1971; County bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Gettysburg; Indiana senate, 1971-1976; elected as a Democrat to the delegate to the Democratic State convention in 1886; elected Ninety-fifth, Ninety-sixth, and Ninety-seventh Congresses; as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897- served from January 3, 1977, until his death on September March 3, 1899); was not a candidate for renomination in 7, 1982, in Washington, D.C.; interment at Calumet Park 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of Cemetery, Merrillville, Ind. law in Gettysburg, Pa.; unsuccessful candidate for election as president judge of the thirty-first judicial district in 1925; BENJAMIN, John Forbes, a Representative from Mis- died in Gettysburg, Pa., December 30, 1930; interment in souri; born in Cicero, Onondaga County, N.Y., January 23, Evergreen Cemetery. 1817; attended the public schools; moved to Texas in 1845 and to Missouri in 1848; studied law; was admitted to the BENNET, Augustus Witschief (son of William Stiles bar and commenced practice in Shelbyville, Shelby County, Bennet), a Representative from New York; born in New Mo., in 1848; member of the State house of representatives York City October 7, 1897; attended the public schools of 1850-1852; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of New York City and Washington, D.C., and was graduated in 1856; entered the Union Army as a private in 1861 and from Amherst (Mass.) College in 1918; during the First was subsequently promoted to the ranks of captain, major, World War served in the United States Naval Reserve Fly- lieutenant colonel, and brigadier general; provost marshal ing Corps with the rating of chief quartermaster from June of the Eighth District of Missouri in 1863 and 1864; delegate 8, 1918, to January 19, 1919; was graduated from the Co- to the Republican National Convention in 1864; elected as lumbia University Law School at New York City in 1921; a Republican to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1871); chairman, Com- practice in Newburgh, N.Y.; United States referee in bank- mittee on Invalid Expenditures (Forty-first Congress); was ruptcy 1923-1944; elected as a Republican to the Seventy- not a candidate for renomination in 1870; resumed the prac- ninth Congress (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1947); unsuc- tice of law in Shelbyville; unsuccessful candidate for election cessful candidate for renomination in 1946; resumed the in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress; moved to Washington, practice of law; resided in Laguna Hills, Calif. until his D.C., in 1874 and engaged in banking; died in Washington, death in Concord, Mass. on June 5, 1983; cremated; ashes D.C., March 8, 1877; interment in a private cemetery at interred at Cedar Hills Mausoleum, Newburgh, N.Y. Shelbina, Shelby County, Mo. BENNET, Benjamin, a Representative from New Jersey; BENJAMIN, Judah Philip, a Senator from Louisiana; born in Bucks County, Pa., October 31, 1764; attended the born on the Island of St. Croix, Danish West Indies (now common schools; studied theology; was ordained as a min- Virgin Islands), August 6, 1811; immigrated to Savannah, ister in Middletown, Monmouth County, N.J., in 1793 and Ga., in 1816 with his parents, who later settled in Wil- served as pastor of a Baptist church in that city; also en- mington, N.C.; attended the Fayetteville Academy, Fayette- gaged in agricultural pursuits; elected as a Republican to ville, N.C., and Yale College; moved to New Orleans, La., the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815- in 1831 and taught school; studied law; admitted to the March 3, 1819); resumed agricultural pursuits; died on his bar in 1832 and commenced practice in New Orleans; elected farm near Middletown, N.J., October 8, 1840; interment in to the lower house of the state legislature in 1842 and the Baptist Cemetery, Holmdel, N.J. 642 Biographical Directory

BENNET, Hiram Pitt, a Delegate from the Territory United States Army, 1942-1947; elected as a Democrat to of Colorado; born in Carthage, Franklin County, Maine, Sep- the Eighty-first and to the twenty-one succeeding Congresses tember 2, 1826; moved to Ohio with his parents, who settled (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1993); chair, Committee on in Richland County in 1831; attended public and private Standards of Official Conduct (Ninety-sixth Congress); was schools and the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware; not a candidate for renomination to the One Hundred Third taught school in northwestern Missouri in 1850; studied law; Congress in 1992; died on September 6, 2003, in Jackson- was admitted to the bar in 1851 and practiced in western ville, Fla. Iowa and later at Glenwood, Iowa; judge of the circuit court of Iowa in 1852; moved to in 1854, set- BENNETT, Charles Goodwin, a Representative from tled in Nebraska City, and continued the practice of law; New York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., December 11, 1863; at- unsuccessfully contested in 1855 as a Republican the elec- tended the public schools; was graduated from the Brooklyn tion of Bird B. Chapman to the Thirty-fourth Congress; High School and from the New York Law School in 1882; member of the Territorial council in 1856; member of the was admitted to the bar in 1882 and commenced practice Territorial house of representatives in 1858 and served as in Brooklyn, N.Y.; unsuccessful candidate for election in speaker; moved to Denver, Colo., in 1859 and continued 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress; elected as a Republican the practice of law; upon the admission of the Territory to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, to representation was elected as a Conservative Republican, 1895-March 3, 1899); unsuccessful candidate for reelection a Delegate to the Thirty-seventh Congress; reelected to the in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; Secretary of the United Thirty-eighth Congress and served from August 19, 1861, States Senate from January 29, 1900, to March 3, 1913, to March 3, 1865; was not a candidate for renomination when a successor was elected; returned to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1864; secretary of state of Colorado in 1867; appointed discontinued active business pursuits, and lived in retire- postmaster of Denver, Colo., on March 26, 1869, and served ment until his death on May 25, 1914; interment in Ever- until May 27, 1874, when a successor was appointed; mem- green Cemetery. ber of the first State senate in 1876; appointed ‘‘State agent’’ BENNETT, David Smith, a Representative from New in 1888, and served until 1895 in recovering lands belonging York; born on a farm near Camillus, Onondaga County, to the State of Colorado which had been wrongfully disposed N.Y., May 3, 1811; attended the common schools and the of; retired in 1899 and resided in Denver, Colo., until his local academy in Onondaga; engaged in agricultural pur- death, November 11, 1914; interment in Riverside Cemetery. suits; moved to Syracuse and engaged in the produce busi- Bibliography: Bennet, Hiram Pitt. Hiram Pitt Bennet: Pioneer, Frontier Lawyer, Politician. Edited by Liston E. Leyendecker; co-editors, Conrad ness, afterwards extending his business to New York City; Woodall, Holley R. Lange, Susan L. Hoskinson. Denver, Colo.: Colorado moved to Buffalo in 1853 and built and operated several Historical Society, 1988; Silverman, Jason H. ‘‘Making Brick Out of Straw: grain elevators; also purchased the original Dart grain eleva- Delegate Hiram P. Bennet.’’ Colorado Magazine 53 (Fall 1976): 309-27. tor; elected a member of the State senate in 1865; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869- BENNET, William Stiles (father of Augustus Witschief March 3, 1871); declined to be a candidate for renomination Bennet), a Representative from New York; born in Port Jer- in 1870; resumed his former business pursuits in Buffalo, vis, Orange County, N.Y., November 9, 1870; attended the N.Y., where he died November 6, 1894; interment in Oak- common schools; graduated from Port Jervis Academy, Port wood Cemetery, Syracuse, N.Y. Jervis, N.Y., 1889; graduated from Albany Law School, Al- bany, N.Y., 1892; lawyer, private practice; official reporter BENNETT, Granville Gaylord, a Delegate from the Ter- of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, 1892-1893; ritory of Dakota; born near Bloomingburg, Fayette County, member of the New York state assembly, 1901-1902; justice Ohio, October 9, 1833; moved to Illinois in 1849 with his of the municipal court of New York, N.Y., 1903; member parents, who settled in Fulton County, and to Washington, of the United States Immigration Commission, 1907-1910; Iowa, in 1855; attended Howe’s Academy, Mount Pleasant, delegate to the Republican National Convention, 1908 and Iowa, and Washington College, Iowa; studied law; was ad- 1916; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth and to the mitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Wash- two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1911); ington, Iowa; during the Civil War served in the Union unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-second Army as a commissioned officer from July 1861 to August Congress in 1910; elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress to 1865 and was assigned to the Seventh and Nineteenth Regi- fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Rep- ments of Iowa Volunteer Infantry; returned to Washington, resentative Joseph A. Goulden (November 2, 1915-March Iowa; member of the State house of representatives 1865- 3, 1917); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty- 1867; served in the State senate 1867-1871; appointed asso- fifth Congress in 1916; official parliamentarian of the Repub- ciate justice of the supreme court of the Territory of Dakota lican National Convention at Chicago in 1916; United States on February 24, 1875, and served until August 23, 1878, delegate to the Seventeenth International Congress Against when he resigned, having been nominated for Congress; Alcoholism held at Copenhagen, 1923; business executive; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth Congress (March unsuccessful candidate for election to the Seventy-fifth Con- 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); was not a candidate for reelection gress in 1936; served as a delegate to the New York state in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; resumed the practice constitutional convention in 1938; unsuccessful candidate at of law in Deadwood, S.Dak.; elected judge of the probate a special election in 1944 to fill a vacancy in the Seventy- court of Lawrence County and served three terms; died at eighth Congress; died on December 1, 1962, in Central Val- Hot Springs, Fall River County, S.Dak., June 28, 1910; in- ley, N.Y.; remains were cremated and the ashes interred terment in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood, S.Dak. in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Port Jervis, N.Y. BENNETT, Hendley Stone, a Representative from Mis- BENNETT, Charles Edward, a Representative from sissippi; born near Franklin, Williamson County, Tenn., Florida; born in Canton, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., Decem- April 7, 1807; attended the public schools in West Point, ber 2, 1910; attended the Tampa schools; J.D., University Miss.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1830 and of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., 1934; lawyer, private practice; commenced practice in Columbus, Miss.; judge of the circuit member of the Florida state house of representatives, 1941; court 1846-1854; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fourth Biographies 643

Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); unsuccessful can- County (Mo.) Republican central committee 1938-1942; dele- didate for renomination in 1856; resumed the practice of gate to Missouri State Conventions, 1938, 1940, 1944, 1946, law in Columbus; moved to Paris, Tex., in 1859 and contin- and 1948; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth ued the practice of law; served as a captain in Company Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his G, Thirty-second Regiment, Texas Cavalry, Confederate father; reelected to the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Con- States Army, from August 5, 1861, to August 31, 1862; gresses and served from January 12, 1943, to January 3, resumed the practice of law; in 1886 returned to Tennessee 1949; congressional delegate to inspect atrocity camps in and settled in Franklin, Williamson County, and continued Germany, 1945; was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection the practice of his profession; died in Franklin, Tenn., De- in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; commissioner, United cember 15, 1891; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery. States Court of Claims, Washington, D.C., January 4, 1949, to September 11, 1964, when he became chief commissioner BENNETT, Henry, a Representative from New York; and served until July 7, 1972; judge, U.S. Court of Claims, born in New Lisbon, Otsego County, N.Y., September 29, 1972-1982; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal cir- 1808; attended the public schools; studied law; was admitted cuit, 1982; senior U.S. Circuit judge, 1986-1987; died in Al- to the bar in 1832 and commenced practice in New Berlin, exandria, Va., on September 6, 2000; interment at Hazel- Chenango County, N.Y.; served as clerk of the town of New wood Cemetery, Springfield, Mo. Berlin in 1846; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first through BENNETT, Philip Allen (father of Marion T. Bennett), Thirty-fourth Congresses and as a Republican to the Thirty- a Representative from Missouri; born on a farm near Buf- fifth Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1859); chairman, falo, Dallas County, Mo., March 5, 1881; attended the public Committee on Public Lands (Thirty-fourth Congress); unsuc- schools and Buffalo (Mo.) High School; was graduated from cessful candidate for renomination in 1858 to the Thirty- Springfield (Mo.) Normal and Business College in 1902; sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law in New Berlin, taught school at Independence, Mo., in 1899 and at Boyd, N.Y., until his death there on May 10, 1868; interment Mo., in 1900; purchased the Buffalo (Mo.) Reflex, which in St. Andrews’ Cemetery. he edited and published 1904-1921; chairman of the Dallas BENNETT, John Bonifas, a Representative from Michi- County (Mo.) Republican committee for eight years; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1912; served in gan; born in Garden, Delta County, Mich., January 10, 1904; the State senate 1921-1925; moved to Springfield, Mo., in attended the public schools; was graduated from Watersmeet 1922 and engaged in the real estate and loan business; (Mich.) High School, from Marquette University Law School, Federal land bank appraiser 1923-1925; Lieutenant Gov- Milwaukee, Wis., in 1925; took a postgraduate course at ernor of Missouri 1925-1929; unsuccessful candidate for the Chicago (Ill.) University Law School in 1926; was admitted Republican nomination for Governor in 1928; engaged in to the Wisconsin bar in 1925 and to the Michigan bar in the insurance and loan business; unsuccessful candidate for 1926; practiced law in Ontonagon, Mich., 1926-1942; pros- election in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; elected as ecuting attorney of Ontonagon County 1929-1934; deputy a Republican to the Seventy-seventh Congress and served commissioner of the Michigan Department of Labor and In- from January 3, 1941, until his death in Washington, D.C., dustry 1935-1937; elected as a Republican to the Seventy- December 7, 1942; had been reelected to the Seventy-eighth eighth Congress (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1945); unsuc- Congress; interment in Hazelwood Cemetery, Springfield, cessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Mo. Congress; resumed the practice of law; elected in 1946 to the Eightieth and to the eight succeeding Congresses and BENNETT, Risden Tyler, a Representative from North served from January 3, 1947, until his death in Chevy Carolina; born in Wadesboro, Anson County, N.C., June 18, Chase, Md., August 9, 1964; interment in Gate of Heaven 1840; attended the common schools and Anson Institute; Cemetery, Silver Spring, Md. was graduated from Cumberland University and from Leb- anon Law School, Tennessee, in 1859; during the Civil War BENNETT, Joseph Bentley, a Representative from Ken- enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private on April 30, tucky; born in Greenup County, Ky., April 21, 1859; at- 1861, and left the service as colonel of the Fourteenth North tended the common schools and Greenup Academy, Greenup, Carolina Troops, having been wounded on three occasions; Ky.; taught in the public schools; studied law; was admitted solicitor of Anson County in 1866 and 1867; member of to the bar in 1878 and commenced practice in 1880; entered the State house of representatives 1872-1874; delegate to the mercantile business in 1885; judge of Greenup County the State constitutional convention in 1875; judge of the 1894-1897; reelected in 1897 and served until 1901; member superior court from 1880 until his resignation in 1882; elect- of the Republican State central committee in 1900 and 1904; ed as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Con- elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and gresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); chairman, Com- Sixty-first Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1911); unsuc- mittee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Forty- cessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second ninth Congress); engaged in the practice of law in Congress; continued the practice of his profession until his Wadesboro, N.C., and died there July 21, 1913; interment death in Greenup, Greenup County, Ky., November 7, 1923; in the family cemetery near Wadesboro, N.C. interment in Riverview Cemetery. BENNETT, Robert (son of Wallace Foster Bennett), a BENNETT, Marion Tinsley (son of Philip A. Bennett), Senator from Utah; born in Salt Lake City, Utah, September 18, 1933; attended Utah public schools; graduated Univer- a Representative from Missouri; born in Buffalo, Dallas sity of Utah 1956; chief, Congressional liaison, U.S. Depart- County, Mo., June 6, 1914; attended the public schools of ment of Transportation; chief executive officer, Franklin Buffalo, Jefferson City, and Springfield, Mo.; Southwest Mis- Quest 1984-1992; chairman, Utah Education Strategic Plan- souri State College at Springfield, A.B., 1935 and Wash- ning Commission 1988; elected as a Republican to the ington University School of Law, St. Louis, Mo., J.D., 1938; United States Senate in 1992; reelected in 1998 and 2004 was admitted to the bar in 1938 and commenced practice for the term ending January 3, 2011. in Springfield, Mo.; served as secretary to his father, Con- gressman Philip A. Bennett, 1941-1943; colonel in United BENNETT, Thomas Warren, a Delegate from the Terri- States Air Force Reserve until 1974; member of the Greene tory of Idaho; born in Union County, Ind., February 16, 644 Biographical Directory

1831; attended the common schools and was graduated from ty, Kans., in 1869; held various local offices; member, State the law department of the Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) senate 1881-1885; judge of the fourth judicial district of University in July 1854; was admitted to the bar in 1855 Kansas 1885-1897; appointed as a Republican to the United and commenced practice in Liberty, Union County, Ind.; States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation elected a member of the State senate in 1858 and resigned of Joseph R. Burton and served from June 11, 1906, to in 1861, upon the outbreak of the Civil War, to enter the January 23, 1907, when a successor was elected; unsuccess- Union Army; was commissioned a captain in the Fifteenth ful candidate for election in 1907 to fill this vacancy; ap- Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in April 1861; became pointed and subsequently elected associate justice of the major of the Thirty-sixth Regiment in September 1861; colo- supreme court of Kansas and served from 1907 to 1915, nel of the Sixty-ninth Regiment in August 1862 and was when he resigned; retired from public life; died in Topeka, appointed brigadier general in March 1865; returned to Kans., January 1, 1916; interment in Highland Cemetery, Richmond, Ind.; again elected a member of the State senate, Ottawa, Kans. in October 1864, and served until March 1867; mayor of Bibliography: Kansas. Supreme Court. ‘‘Proceedings in the Supreme the city of Richmond, Ind., in 1869 and 1870; in September Court in Memory of Alfred W. Benson.’’ Advance Sheets of the Kansas Re- 1871 was appointed Governor of the Territory of Idaho by ports 98 (June 1916): 1-5. President Grant and served until December 4, 1875, when BENSON, Carville Dickinson, a Representative from he resigned, having been elected to Congress; presented cre- Maryland; born near Halethorpe, Baltimore County, Md., dentials as an Independent Member-elect to the Forty-fourth August 24, 1872; attended the public schools of Baltimore, Congress and served from March 4, 1875, to June 23, 1876, preparatory schools, and Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., when he was succeeded by Stephen S. Fenn, who contested in 1890; was graduated from the law department of Balti- his election; was not a candidate for renomination in 1876; more University in 1893; was admitted to the bar the same resumed the practice of law in Richmond, Ind.; again served year and commenced practice in Baltimore; member of the as city mayor 1877-1883 and 1885-1887; died in Richmond, State house of representatives 1904-1910 and again in 1918, Wayne County, Ind., February 2, 1893; interment in serving as speaker in 1906; member of the State senate Earlham Cemetery. 1912-1914; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joshua F. C. BENNETT, Wallace Foster (father of Robert Bennett), Talbott; reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress and served a Senator from Utah; born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Novem- from November 5, 1918, to March 3, 1921; unsuccessful can- ber 13, 1898; attended the public schools and the University didate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixth-seventh Congress; of Utah; during the First World War, served as a second resumed the practice of law in Baltimore, Md., and resided lieutenant of Infantry; returned to the in Halethorpe, Md.; appointed State insurance commissioner and graduated in 1919; high school principal and later busi- of Maryland in 1924 and served until his death in Baltimore, nessman and paint manufacturer; president, National Asso- Md., February 8, 1929; interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery, ciation of Manufacturers in 1949; elected as a Republican Brooklyn Station, Baltimore, Md. to the United States Senate in 1950; reelected in 1956, 1962, and again in 1968 and served from January 3, 1951, until BENSON, Egbert, a Delegate and a Representative from his resignation December 20, 1974; was not a candidate New York; born in New York City June 21, 1746; was grad- for reelection in 1974; resumed business pursuits; was a uated from Kings (now Columbia) College in 1765; studied resident of Salt Lake City, Utah, until his death on Decem- law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in ber 19, 1993; interment at Salt Lake City Cemetery. New York City; deputy to the provincial convention in 1775; Bibliography: Bennett, Wallace F. Faith and Freedom: The Pillars of member of the council of safety in 1777 and 1778; in 1777 American Democracy. New York: Scribner, 1950; Bennett, Wallace F. Why was appointed the first attorney general of New York and I Am A Mormon. New York: T. Nelson, 1958. served until 1789; member of the State assembly 1777-1781 BENNY, Allan, a Representative from New Jersey; born and again in 1788; in 1783 was appointed one of the three in Brooklyn, N.Y., July 12, 1867; attended the public schools commissioners to direct the embarkation of the Tory refu- of Bayonne, Hudson County, N.J.; studied law; was admitted gees for the loyal British provinces; associate judge of the to the bar in 1889 and commenced practice in Bayonne; supreme court of New York 1784-1801; Member of the Conti- member of the city council 1892-1894; member of the State nental Congress in 1784, 1787 and 1788; member of the house of assembly 1898-1900; prosecuting attorney of Ba- State constitutional convention in 1788, which ratified the Federal Constitution; elected to the First and Second Con- yonne from 1900 to 1903, when he resigned, having been gresses (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1793); regent of the New elected to Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty- York University 1789-1802; appointed judge of the United eighth Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); unsuccess- States Circuit Court, second circuit, February 20, 1801; ful candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Con- served as the first president of the New-York Historical gress; resumed the practice of his chosen profession; and Society from 1804 to 1816; elected as a Federalist to the was assistant librarian of the law library in the courthouse Thirteenth Congress and served from March 4, 1813, to at Jersey City until his death; died in Bayonne, N.J., No- August 2, 1813, when he resigned; died in Jamaica, Long vember 6, 1942; interment in Moravian Cemetery, Staten Island, N.Y., August 24, 1833; interment in Prospect Ceme- Island, N.Y. tery. BENSON, Alfred Washburn, a Senator from Kansas; Bibliography: Holt, Wythe, and David A. Nourse. Egbert Benson, First born in Poland, Chautauqua County, N.Y., July 15, 1843; Chief Judge of the Second Circuit (1801-1802): Essays. New York: Second Circuit Committee on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, moved to Jamestown, N.Y., in 1860; attended Jamestown 1987. and Randolph Academies; during the Civil War enlisted in 1862 as a private in the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth BENSON, Elmer Austin, a Senator from Minnesota; Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, and at the close born in Appleton, Swift County, Minn., September 22, 1895; of the war held a commission as major; studied law; admit- attended the public schools; graduated from the St. Paul ted to the bar in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1866 and commenced (Minn.) College of Law in 1918; during the First World practice in Sherman, N.Y.; moved to Ottawa, Franklin Coun- War served as a private in the United States Army 1918- Biographies 645

1919; admitted to the bar but did not practice; engaged Maritime Commission, 1969-1975; international business in banking and retail clothing business; State commissioner consultant; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Ninety- of securities in 1933 and State commissioner of banks 1933- seventh in 1980 and Ninety-eighth Congresses in 1982; 1935; appointed on December 27, 1935, as a Farmer-Laborite elected as a Republican to the Ninety-ninth and to the four to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1985-January 3, 1995); the death of Thomas D. Schall and served from December was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred 27, 1935, until November 3, 1936, when a successor was Fourth Congress in 1994, but was an unsuccessful candidate elected; was not a candidate for election to fill the vacancy; for nomination for Governor of Maryland; unsuccessful can- Governor of Minnesota 1937-1939; unsuccessful candidate didate for election to the One Hundred Eighth Congress in 1938 for reelection as Governor; unsuccessful candidate in 2002. for election to the United States Senate in 1940 and 1942; engaged in agriculture; died in Minneapolis, Minn., March BENTLEY, Henry Wilbur, a Representative from New 13, 1985; interment in Appleton Cemetery, Appleton, Minn. York; born in DeRuyter, Madison County, N.Y., September Bibliography: Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Benson, Elmer 30, 1838; moved with his parents to Morrisville, N.Y.; at- A. ‘‘Politics in My Lifetime.’’ Minnesota History 47 (Winter 1980): 154-60; tended Union School, Yates Polytechnic Institute at Shields, James M. Mr. Progressive: A Biography of Elmer Austin Benson. Chittenango, and Judd’s private school at Berkshire; taught Minneapolis: Denison, 1971. school for several years; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1861 and commenced practice in Boonville, N.Y.; BENSON, Samuel Page, a Representative from Maine, chairman of the Oneida County Building Commission; presi- born in Winthrop, Maine, November 28, 1804; received in- dent of Boonville in 1874, 1889-1891, and 1899; elected as struction from private teachers and attended the Monmouth a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891- (Maine) Academy; was graduated from Bowdoin College, March 3, 1893); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 Brunswick, Maine, in 1825; studied law; was admitted to to the Fifty-third Congress; continued the practice of law the Kennebec County bar in 1828 and commenced practice in Boonville, Oneida County, N.Y., until his death there in Unity, Maine; returned to Winthrop and practiced law on January 27, 1907; interment in Boonville Cemetery. until 1850; railroad builder; secretary of the Androscoggin & Kennebec (later Maine Central) Railroad; member of the BENTON, Charles Swan, a Representative from New State house of representatives in 1833 and 1834; served York; born in Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine, July 12, in the State senate in 1836 and 1837; secretary of state 1810; pursued preparatory studies; moved to Herkimer 1838-1841; overseer of Bowdoin College 1838-1876 and presi- County, N.Y., in 1824 to live with an elder brother; attended dent of the board for sixteen years; chairman of the board Lowville Academy, Lowville, N.Y.; learned the tanner’s of selectmen 1844-1848; elected as a Whig to the Thirty- trade; editor of the Mohawk Courier and the Little Falls third Congress and as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth Gazette 1830-1832; studied law; was admitted to the bar Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1857); chairman, Com- in 1835 and commenced practice at Little Falls, N.Y.; surro- mittee on Naval Affairs (Thirty-fourth Congress); was not gate of Herkimer County in 1837; judge advocate of the a candidate for reelection in 1856; resumed the practice State militia; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth of law; died in Yarmouth, Cumberland County, Maine, Au- and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, gust 12, 1876; interment in Maple Cemetery, Winthrop, 1847); was not a candidate for renomination in 1846; clerk Maine. of the court of appeals 1847-1849; moved to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1855 and subsequently became editor of the Mil- BENTLEY, Alvin Morell, a Representative from Michi- waukee News; appointed by President in gan; born in Portland, Maine, August 30, 1918; graduated 1856 as register of the United States land office at La from Southern Pines (N.C.) High School in 1934, Asheville Crosse, Wis., and served until 1861; was an unsuccessful (N.C.) Prep School in 1936, and the University of Michigan candidate for election in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress; in 1940; attended Turner’s Diplomatic School, Washington, engaged in agricultural pursuits near West Salem, Wis., D.C., to qualify for diplomatic service; served as vice consul and later, in 1865, at Galesburg, Ill.; returned to La Crosse, and secretary with the United States Diplomatic Corps in Wis., in 1869; judge of La Crosse County 1874-1881; died Mexico in May 1942, then going to Colombia, Hungary, and in La Crosse, Wis., May 4, 1882; interment in Oak Grove Italy; returned to Washington, D.C., March 15, 1950, for Cemetery. work in the State Department; resigned from the diplomatic service in 1950; returned to Owosso, Mich.; delegate to Re- BENTON, Jacob, a Representative from New Hampshire; publican State conventions in 1950, 1951, and 1952; vice born in Waterford, Caledonia County, Vt., August 19, 1814; president, Lake Huron Broadcasting Co., Saginaw, Mich., attended the common schools, Lyndon (Vt.) Academy, and 1952; director of Mitchell-Bentley Corp.; elected as a Repub- Randolph (Vt.) Academy, and was graduated from Burr and lican to the Eighty-third and to the three succeeding Con- Burton Seminary at Manchester in 1839; taught school for gresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1961); was not a can- several years; moved to Lancaster, Coos County, N.H., in didate for renomination in 1960, but was unsuccessful for 1842; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1843 and election to the United States Senate; unsuccessful candidate commenced practice in Lancaster; member of the State in 1962 for election to the Eighty-eighth Congress; appointed house of representatives 1854-1856; delegate to the Repub- by Governor George Romney in 1966 to the board of regents lican National Convention in 1860; brigadier general, com- of the University of Michigan, a position he held at the manding State Volunteers; elected as a Republican to the time of his death in Tucson, Ariz., April 10, 1969; interment Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses (March 4, 1867-March in Oak Hill Cemetery, Owosso, Mich. 3, 1871); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1870; resumed the practice of law; died in Lancaster, Coos BENTLEY, Helen Delich, a Representative from Mary- County, N.H., September 29, 1892; interment in the Summer land; born in Ruth, White Pine County, Nev., November Street Cemetery. 28, 1923; attended the University of Nevada, and George- town University, Washington, D.C.; BA., University of Mis- BENTON, Lemuel (great-grandfather of George William souri, 1944; journalist; television producer; chair, Federal Dargan), a Representative from South Carolina; born in 646 Biographical Directory

Granville County, N.C., in 1754; as a young man moved Thirty-fourth Congress and for Governor of Missouri in to that section of Cheraw District which is now Darlington 1856; engaged in literary pursuits in Washington, D.C., until County, S.C.; engaged as a planter and subsequently became his death there on April 10, 1858; interment in Bellefontaine an extensive landowner; elected major of the Cheraw Regi- Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo. ment in 1777 and served throughout the Revolutionary War, Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- being promoted to the rank of colonel in 1781; resigned ography; Benton, Thomas H. Thirty Years View: Or A History of the Amer- his commission in 1794; member of the State house of rep- ican Government for Thirty Years From 1820-1850. 2 vols. 1854, 1856. Re- resentatives 1782-1788; county court justice of Darlington print. New York: Greenwood Press, 1968; Smith, Elbert B. Magnificent County in 1785 and 1791; escheator of Cheraw District (com- Missourian: Thomas Hart Benton. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1957. posed of what is now Chesterfield, Darlington, and Marlboro BENTON, William, a Senator from Connecticut; born in Counties) in 1787; delegate to the State convention at Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minn., April 1, 1900; at- Charleston that ratified the Federal Constitution in 1788; tended Shattuck Military Academy, Faribault, Minn., and sheriff of Cheraw District in 1789 and 1791; delegate to Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., in 1917 and 1918; grad- the State constitutional convention at Columbia in 1790; uated from Yale University in 1921; worked for advertising elected to the Third Congress and reelected as a Republican agencies in New York and Chicago until 1929 and then to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses (March 4, 1793-March cofounded his own advertising agency in New York; moved 3, 1799); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1798 to to Norwalk, Conn., in 1932; part-time vice president of the the Sixth Congress; resumed agricultural pursuits; died in University of Chicago 1937-1945; Assistant Secretary of Darlington, Darlington County, S.C., May 18, 1818; inter- State, Washington, D.C., August 31, 1945, to September 30, ment on his estate, ‘‘Stony Hill,’’ near Darlington, S.C. 1947, during which time he was active in organizing the BENTON, Maecenas Eason, a Representative from Mis- United Nations; member of and delegate to numerous souri; born near Dyersburg, Obion County, Tenn., January United Nations and international conferences and commis- 29, 1848; attended two west Tennessee academies and St. sions; chairman of the board and publisher of Encyclopedia Louis University; was graduated from the law department Britannica 1943-1973; trustee of several schools and colleges; of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1870; served appointed to the United States Senate, December 17, 1949, in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; was admitted and subsequently elected on November 7, 1950, as a Demo- to the bar and commenced practice in Neosho, Newton Coun- crat to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ray- ty, Mo.; prosecuting attorney of Newton County 1878-1884; mond E. Baldwin to the term ending January 3, 1953 and United States attorney from March 1885 to July 1889; dele- served from December 17, 1949, to January 3, 1953; unsuc- gate to the Democratic National Convention in 1896; elected cessful candidate for election for the full term in 1952; as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, United States Ambassador to UNESCO in Paris 1963-1968; and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1905); died in New York City, March 18, 1973; cremated; ashes unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty- scattered at family estate, Southport, Conn. ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Neosho, Mo.; Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Hyman, Sidney. The Lives of William Benton. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969; U.S. member of the State constitutional conventions in 1922 and Congress. Memorial Addresses. 93rd Cong., 1st sess., 1973. Washington, 1924; died in Springfield, Greene County, Mo., April 27, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1973. 1924; interment in the Odd Fellows Cemetery, Neosho, Mo. BENTSEN, Kenneth E., Jr. (nephew of Lloyd Millard BENTON, Thomas Hart (father-in-law of John C. Bentsen), a Representative from Texas; born in Houston, Fre´mont; brother-in-law of James McDowell [1795-1851]), Harris County, Tex., June 3, 1959; graduated from Deerfield a Senator and a Representative from Missouri; born at Academy, Deerfield, Mass., 1977; B.A., University of St. Harts Mill, near Hillsboro, N.C., March 14, 1782; attended Thomas, Houston, Tex., 1982; M.P.A., American University, Chapel Hill College (University of North Carolina); admitted Washington, D.C., 1985; staff, United States Representative to the bar at Nashville, Tenn., in 1806 and commenced Ronald D. Coleman of Texas, 1983-1987; associate staff, practice in Franklin, Williamson County, Tenn.; member, United States House Committee on Appropriations, 1985- State senate 1809-1811; served as aide-de-camp to General 1987; investment banker; elected as a Democrat to the One Andrew Jackson; colonel of a regiment of Tennessee volun- Hundred Fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses teers 1812-1813; lieutenant colonel of the Thirty-ninth (January 3, 1995-January 3, 2003); not a candidate for re- United States Infantry 1813-1815; moved to St. Louis, Mo., election to the One Hundred Eighth Congress in 2002, but where he edited the Missouri Inquirer and continued the was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United practice of law; upon the admission of Missouri as a State States Senate. into the Union, was elected in 1821 as a Democratic Repub- lican (later Jacksonian and Democrat) to the United States BENTSEN, Lloyd Millard, Jr. (uncle of Ken Bentsen), Senate; reelected in 1827, 1833, 1839, and 1845 and served a Representative and a Senator from Texas; born in Mission, from August 10, 1821, to March 3, 1851; chairman, Com- Tex., February 11, 1921; attended the public schools; grad- mittee on Indian Affairs (Eighteenth through Twentieth uated, University of Texas Law School at Austin 1942 and Congresses), Committee on Military Affairs (Twentieth was admitted to the bar the same year; served in the United through Twenty-sixth and Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Con- States Army 1942-1945; entered the private practice of law gresses), Committee on Foreign Relations (Thirtieth Con- in McAllen, Tex., in 1945; county judge of Hidalgo County gress); author of the resolution to expunge from the Senate 1946-1948; elected in 1948 as a Democrat in to the Eighty- Journal the resolution of censure on Andrew Jackson; unsuc- first Congress and, at a special election on December 4, cessful candidate for reelection to the Senate in 1850; cen- 1948, to fill the vacancy in the Eightieth Congress caused sure proceedings were initiated against Benton in 1850, aris- by the death of Milton H. West; reelected to the Eighty- ing from an incident of disorderly conduct on the Chamber second and Eighty-third Congresses and served from Decem- floor, but the Senate took no action; elected as a Democrat ber 4, 1948, to January 3, 1955; was not a candidate for to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); renomination in 1954; founded and operated a financial chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Thirty-third Con- holding company in Texas; elected as a Democrat in 1970 gress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854 to the to the United States Senate for the term commencing Janu- Biographies 647

ary 3, 1971; reelected in 1976, 1982, and 1988, and served BERGEN, John Teunis (second cousin of Teunis Garret until his resignation on January 20, 1993; unsuccessful can- Bergen), a Representative from New York; born in Gowanus, didate for the Democratic nomination for President of the Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1786; completed preparatory studies; ap- United States in 1976; chairman, Joint Economic Committee pointed a lieutenant in the New York State Militia in 1812 (Ninety-eighth Congress), Democratic Senatorial Campaign and promoted to captain in 1815; served in the War of Committee (Ninety-eighth Congress), Committee on Finance 1812; sheriff of Kings County, N.Y., 1821-1825 and again (One Hundredth through One Hundred Second Congresses); from 1828 until 1831, when he resigned; purchased the Long Democratic candidate for Vice President of the United States Island Patriot in 1829, the name of which was subsequently 1988; Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of President changed to the Brooklyn Advocate, and which ultimately William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-1994; awarded the Presi- became the Brooklyn Daily Eagle; elected as a Jacksonian dential Medal of Freedom on August 11, 1999; is a resident to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, of Washington, D.C. 1833); chairman, Committee on Accounts (Twenty-second Bibliography: Collins, Michael L. ‘‘Lloyd Bentsen.’’ In Profiles in Power: Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1832; Twentieth-Century Texans in Washington, edited by Kenneth E. engaged in agricultural pursuits near Bay Ridge, New Hendrickson, Jr. and Michael L. Collins. Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Utrecht, N.Y.; moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., and engaged in Davidson, 1993. the grocery business; in 1837, with his sons, conducted a planing mill in New York City; moved to Genesee County BERESFORD, Richard, a Delegate from South Carolina; and engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Batavia, Gen- born near Charleston, St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, esee County, N.Y., on March 9, 1855; interment in Batavia Berkeley County, S.C. (baptized June 3, 1755); educated in Cemetery. South Carolina and in England; studied law at the Middle Temple in London; lawyer, private practice; engaged in BERGEN, Teunis Garret (second cousin of John Teunis planting, with extensive estates in Berkeley and Colleton Bergen), a Representative from New York; born in Brooklyn, Counties, S.C., and in England; took an active part in the N.Y., October 6, 1806; attended the common schools and Revolution, serving under General Huger in the Georgia Erasmus Hall Academy, Flatbush, N.Y.; engaged in agricul- campaign in 1778, captured at the fall of Charleston in tural pursuits and surveying; supervisor of New Utrecht, 1780 and imprisoned at St. Augustine until 1781, when he Kings County, N.Y., 1836-1859; member of the State con- was exchanged; member of the South Carolina state house stitutional conventions in 1846, 1867, and 1868; delegate of representatives, 1781; elected by the South Carolina state to the Democratic National Conventions at Baltimore and general assembly a member of the privy council in 1782; Charleston in 1860; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty- elected Lieutenant Governor in January 1783, but resigned ninth Congress (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); was not shortly afterward, having been elected to Congress; Member a candidate for renomination in 1866; resumed agricultural of the Continental Congress in 1783 and 1784; resumed pursuits and surveying near New Utrecht; also engaged in planting; later engaged in literary pursuits; published the literary and historical work; served as ensign, captain, adju- Vigil in Charleston in 1798; died in Charleston, S.C., Feb- tant, lieutenant colonel, and colonel of the Two Hundred ruary 6, 1803. and Forty-first Regiment, New York State Militia, known as Kings County Troop; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., April 24, BEREUTER, Douglas Kent, a Representative from Ne- 1881; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. braska; born in York, York County, Nebr., October 6, 1939; attended St. Paul’s Lutheran School, Utica, Nebr.; graduated BERGER, Victor Luitpold, a Representative from Wis- from Utica High School, Utica, Nebr., 1957; B.A., University consin; born in Nieder Rebbach, Austria-Hungary, February of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr., 1961; M.C.P., Harvard Univer- 28, 1860; attended the Gymnasia at Leutschau and the uni- sity, Cambridge, Mass., 1966; M.P.A., Harvard University, versities at Budapest and Vienna; immigrated to the United Cambridge, Mass., 1973; United States Army, 1963-1965; States in 1878 with his parents, who settled near Bridge- urban planner, United States Department of Housing and port, Conn.; moved to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1880; taught Urban Development, 1965-1966; division director, Nebraska school 1880-1890; editor of the Milwaukee Daily Vorwaerts Department of Economic Development, 1967-1968; director, 1892-1898; editor of the Wahrheit, the Social Democratic Office of Planning and Programming, Nebr., 1968-1970; Fed- Herald, and the Milwaukee Leader, being publisher of the eral-State Relations Coordinator for Nebraska state govern- last named at the time of his death; delegate to the People’s ment, 1967-1970; member of the Nebraska Crime Commis- Party Convention at St. Louis in 1896; one of the organizers sion, 1969-1971; member of the Nebraska unicameral legis- of the Social Democracy in 1897 and of the Social Demo- lative, 1975-1978; elected as a Republican to the Ninety- cratic Party in 1898, known since 1900 as the Socialist sixth and to the twelve succeeding Congresses and served Party; unsuccessful candidate of the Socialist Party for elec- until his resignation on August 31, 2004 (January 3, 1979- tion in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress; elected a member August 31, 2004). of the charter convention of Milwaukee in 1907, and alder- man at large in 1910; elected as a Socialist to the Sixty- BERGEN, Christopher Augustus, a Representative second Congress (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1913); presented from New Jersey; born in Bridge Point, Somerset County, credentials as a Member-elect to the Sixty-sixth Congress, N.J., August 2, 1841; attended Harlingen School and Edge but the House by a resolution adopted on November 10, Hill Classical School and was graduated from Princeton Col- 1919, declared him not entitled to take the oath of office lege in 1863; studied law; was licensed by the supreme court as a Representative or to hold a seat as such; having been of New Jersey in 1866 as an attorney and commenced prac- opposed to the entrance of the United States in the First tice in Camden, N.J.; licensed as a counselor in 1869; elected World War and having written articles expressing his opin- as a Republican to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Con- ion on that question, he was indicted in various places in gresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1893); unsuccessful can- the Federal courts, tried at Chicago, found guilty, and sen- didate for renomination in 1892; resumed the practice of tenced by Judge Kenesaw M. Landis in February 1919 to law; in 1903 moved to Haverford, Montgomery County, Pa., serve twenty years in the Federal penitentiary; this judg- where he died on February 18, 1905; interment in Evergreen ment was reversed by the United States Supreme Court Cemetery, Camden, N.J. in 1921, whereupon the Government withdrew all cases 648 Biographical Directory

against him in 1922; his election to the Sixty-sixth Congress geles, Calif., 1962; LL.B., University of California School was unsuccessfully contested by Joseph P. Carney and the of Law, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965; lawyer, private practice; seat was declared vacant; presented credentials as a Mem- VISTA volunteer, 1966-1967; member of the California state ber-elect to fill the vacancy caused by the action of the assembly, 1973-1982; delegate, Democratic National Conven- House and on January 10, 1920, the House again decided tion, 1968, 1976, and 1984; elected as a Democrat to the that he was not entitled to a seat in the Sixty-sixth Congress Ninety-eighth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (Janu- and declined to permit him to take the oath or qualify as ary 3, 1983-present). a Representative; Henry H. Bodenstab unsuccessfully con- tested this election, and on February 25, 1921, the House BERNARD, John Toussaint, a Representative from again declared the seat vacant; elected as a Socialist to Minnesota; born in Bastia, Island of Corsica, France, March the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, and Seventieth Congresses 6, 1893; in 1907 immigrated to the United States with his (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1929); unsuccessful candidate for parents, who settled in Eveleth, St. Louis County, Minn.; reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress; resumed attended public schools in France and in Eveleth, Minn.; his editorial work; died in Milwaukee, Wis., August 7, 1929; employed as an iron-ore miner 1910-1917 and as city fire- interment in Forest Home Cemetery. man 1920-1936; served in the United States Army during Bibliography: Miller, Sally M. Victor Berger and the Promise of Con- the First World War as a corporal in the One Hundred structive Socialism, 1910-1920. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1973. and Twenty-fifth Field Artillery, and also as a civilian em- ployee in the Army and Navy Intelligence 1917-1919, serving BERGLAND, Robert Selmer, a Representative from overseas fifteen months; delegate to the State Farmer-Labor Minnesota; born in Roseau, Roseau County, Minn., July 22, Party conventions in 1936, 1938, and 1940; elected as a 1928; attended the Roseau public schools; University of Min- Farmer-Labor candidate to the Seventy-fifth Congress (Jan- nesota School of Agriculture, St. Paul, Minn., 1948; farmer; uary 3, 1937-January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for chairman, Minnesota Agriculture Stabilization and Con- reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress and for servation Service, March 1961-January 1963; midwest direc- election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress; engaged tor, U.S. Department of Agriculture, January 1963-May as a labor organizer, legislative director and civil rights ac- 1968; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Ninety-first tivist; moved to Long Beach, Calif., where he lived until Congress in 1968; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety- his death there on August 6, 1983. second and to the three succeeding Congresses, until his resignation on January 22, 1977, (January 3, 1971-January BERNHISEL, John Milton, a Delegate from the Terri- 22, 1977); Secretary of Agriculture, 1977-1981; president, tory of Utah; born at Sandy Hill, Tyrone Township, near Farmland World Trade, March 1981-September 1982; vice Harrisburg, Cumberland County, Pa., July 23, 1799; at- president and general manager, National Rural Electric Co- tended the common schools; was graduated from the medical operatives Association, Washington, D.C., 1982-1993; is a department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadel- resident of Annandale, Va. phia; commenced the practice of medicine in New York City; BERKLEY, Shelley, a Representative from Nevada; born moved to Nauvoo, Hancock County, Ill., in 1843, and thence Rochelle Levine in New York, N.Y., January 20, 1951; grad- to the Territory of Utah; settled in Salt Lake City in 1848 uated from Valley High School, Las Vegas, Nev.; B.A., Uni- and continued the practice of medicine; elected as a Whig versity of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1972; J.D., University of San to the Thirty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses Diego Law School, San Diego, Calif., 1976; member of the (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1859); was not a candidate for Nevada state assembly, 1983-1985; member of the Nevada renomination in 1858; resumed the practice of medicine; University and Community College System Board of Re- elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861- gents, 1990-1998; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred March 3, 1863); was not a candidate for renomination in Sixth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1862; resumed the practice of his profession; served as re- 1999-present). gent of the University of Utah; died in Salt Lake City Sep- tember 28, 1881; interment in Salt Lake City Cemetery. BERLIN, William Markle, a Representative from Penn- Bibliography: Barrett, Gwynn W. ‘‘Dr. John M. Bernhisel: Mormon sylvania; born on a farm near Delmont, Westmoreland Coun- Elder in Congress.’’ Utah Historical Quarterly 36 (Spring 1968): 143-67. ty, Pa., March 29, 1880; attended the public schools; was BERRIEN, John Macpherson, a Senator from Georgia; graduated from Laird Institute at Murrysville, Pa., in 1896; born at Rocky Hill, near Princeton, N.J., August 23, 1781; moved to Greensburg, Pa., in 1916 and engaged as an auto- moved with his parents to Savannah, Ga., in 1782; grad- mobile distributor, in the wholesale oil and gas business, uated from Princeton College in 1796; studied law in Savan- and in coal mining; chairman of the Democratic County nah; admitted to the bar and began practice in Louisville, Committee in 1916; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy- third and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933-Janu- then the capital of Georgia, in 1799; returned to Savannah; ary 3, 1937); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in elected solicitor of the eastern judicial circuit of Georgia 1936; clerk of the court of Westmoreland County, Pa., 1937- in 1809; judge of the same circuit from 1810 until January 1941; resumed the mining of coal in Pennsylvania and West 30, 1821, when he resigned; captain of the Georgia Hussars, Virginia in 1941; delegate to the Democratic National Con- a Savannah volunteer company, in the War of 1812; mem- vention in Chicago in 1944; unsuccessful for the Republican ber, State senate 1822-1823; elected as a Jacksonian to the congressional nomination in 1950; assistant librarian, United States Senate and served from March 4, 1825, until United States House of Representatives, February 1, 1957, March 9, 1829; resigned to accept the position of Attorney until 1961 when promoted to librarian, and served in that General in the Cabinet of President Andrew Jackson and capacity until his death in Greensburg, Pa., October 14, served from March 9, 1829, until June 22, 1831, when he 1962; interment in Westmoreland County Memorial Park. resigned; resumed the practice of law; again elected, as a Whig, to the United States Senate and served from March BERMAN, Howard Lawrence, a Representative from 4, 1841, until May 1845, when he again resigned to accept California; born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., an appointment to the supreme court of Georgia; again elect- April 15, 1941; graduated from Hamilton High School, Los ed in 1845 to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy Angeles, Calif., 1959; B.A., University of California, Los An- caused by his second resignation; reelected in 1846 and Biographies 649

served from November 13, 1845, until May 28, 1852, when BERRY, George Leonard, a Senator from Tennessee; he resigned for the third time; chairman, Committee on born in Lee Valley, Hawkins County, Tenn., September 12, Judiciary (Twentieth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh 1882; attended the common schools; employed as a pressman Congresses); president of the American Party convention at from 1891 to 1907 in various cities; served during the First Milledgeville in 1855; died in Savannah, Ga., January 1, World War in the American Expeditionary Forces, with the 1856; interment in Laurel Grove Cemetery. rank of major, in the Railroad Transportation Engineers Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Govan, Thomas P. 1918-1919; president of the International Pressmen and As- ‘‘John Macpherson Berrien and the Administration of Andrew Jackson.’’ sistants’ Union of North America 1907-1948; also engaged Journal of Southern History 5 (November 1939): 447-67; McCrary, Royce, in agricultural pursuits and banking; delegate to many na- Jr. ‘‘John Macpherson Berrien of Georgia: A Political Biography.’’ Ph.D. tional and international labor conventions; appointed on dissertation, University of Georgia, 1971. May 6, 1937, as a Democrat to the United States Senate BERRY, Albert Seaton, a Representative from Ken- to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Nathan L. tucky; born in Fairfield (now Dayton), Campbell County, Bachman and served from May 6, 1937, to November 8, Ky., May 13, 1836; attended the public schools; was grad- 1938, when a successor was elected; unsuccessful candidate uated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1855 and for nomination in 1938 to fill the vacancy; resumed the from the Cincinnati Law School in 1858; was admitted to presidency of the International Pressmen and Assistants’ the bar and practiced; prosecuting attorney of Newport, Ky., Union of North America, and also his agricultural pursuits in 1859; served in the Confederate Army throughout the at Pressmen’s Home, Tenn., until his death on December Civil War; mayor of Newport in 1870 and served five terms; 4, 1948; interment in Pressmen’s Home Cemetery. member of the State senate in 1878 and 1884; elected as Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Spencer, Thomas T. a Democrat to the Fifty-third and to the three succeeding ″Printer and Politician: The Political Career of George L. Berry, 1907- Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1901); unsuccessful 1948. Tennessee Historical Quarterly (Fall 1997): 213-229; Berry, George L. candidate for renomination in 1900; resumed the practice Labor Conditions Abroad. Rogersville, TN: Technical Trade School, Print- of law; appointed and subsequently elected judge of the sev- ing Pressman and Assistants’ Union, 1913. enteenth judicial district of Kentucky and served from 1905 BERRY, James Henderson (cousin of Campbell Polson until his death in Newport, Campbell County, Ky., January Berry), a Senator from Arkansas; born in Jackson County, 6, 1908; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. Ala., May 15, 1841; moved to Arkansas with his parents, BERRY, Campbell Polson (cousin of James Henderson who settled in Carroll County in 1848; attended a private Berry), a Representative from California; born in Jackson school in Berryville, Ark.; entered the Confederate Army County, Ala., November 7, 1834; moved to Arkansas in 1841 in 1861 as a second lieutenant, Sixteenth Regiment, Arkan- with his parents, who settled in Berryville; attended the sas Infantry; lost a leg in the Battle of Corinth, Miss., in grammar school; moved to California in 1857 and settled 1862; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1866 and com- near Yuba City; was graduated from the Pacific Methodist menced practice in Berryville, Carroll County, Ark.; elected College, Vacaville, Solano County, Calif., in 1865; served to the State house of representatives in 1866; reelected in as supervisor of Sutter County 1866-1869; engaged in agri- 1872, and served as speaker in 1874; moved to Bentonville, cultural pursuits and for a short time, in 1872, was also Ark., in 1869 and continued the practice of law; chairman in the mercantile business; member of the State assembly of the Democratic State convention in 1876; judge of the in 1869, 1871, 1873, 1875, 1877, and 1878, serving as speak- circuit court 1878-1882; elected Governor of Arkansas in er in 1877 and 1878; elected as a Democrat to the Forty- 1882; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-March in 1885 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of 3, 1883); declined to be a candidate for renomination in Augustus H. Garland; reelected in 1889, 1895, and 1901, 1882; subtreasurer of the United States at San Francisco, and served from March 20, 1885, to March 3, 1907; unsuc- Calif., 1894-1898; died in Wheatland, Yuba County, Calif., cessful candidate for reelection in 1906; chairman, Com- on January 8, 1901; interment in Fairview Cemetery, Sutter mittee on Public Lands (Fifty-third Congress), Committee County, Calif. on Engrossed Bills (Fifty-ninth Congress); died in Bentonville, Benton County, Ark., January 30, 1913; inter- BERRY, Ellis Yarnal, a Representative from South Da- ment in the Knights of Pythias Cemetery. kota; born in Larchwood, Lyon County, Iowa, October 6, Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Berry, James. An 1902; attended Philip (S.Dak.) High School; student in Autobiography of James Berry. Bentonville, Ark.: Democrat Press, 1913; Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa, 1920-1922; was grad- Mulhollan, Paige E. ‘‘The Issues of the Davis-Berry Senatorial Campaign uated from the law school of the University of South Dakota in 1906.’’ Arkansas Historical Quarterly 20 (Summer 1961): 118-25. at Vermillion in 1927; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced the practice of law in Kennebec, BERRY, John, a Representative from Ohio; born near Lyman County, S.Dak., and at McLaughlin, Corson County, Carey, in that portion of Crawford County which is now in 1929; served as State’s attorney, mayor of McLaughlin, Wyandot County, Ohio, April 26, 1833; attended the public and judge of Probate Court, Corson County, 1931-1939; pub- schools, and Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware; was lisher of the McLaughlin Messenger since 1938, McIntosh graduated from the law department of Cincinnati College, News and Morristown World since 1952; delegate to State Ohio, in 1857; was admitted to the bar in April 1857 and Republican Conventions in 1934, 1936, and 1938; editor of commenced practice in Upper Sandusky; elected prosecuting the State Bar Association Journal 1938-1950; member of attorney of Wyandot County in 1862; reelected in 1864; the State senate in 1939 and 1941 legislative sessions, and mayor of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, in 1864; elected as a Demo- legislative assistant to the Governor during the 1943 ses- crat to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, sion; member of the Missouri River States Committee, 1940- 1875); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1874; 1943; member of the State Board of Regents of Education, resumed the practice of law in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, where 1946-1950; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and he died May 18, 1879; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January near Upper Sandusky, Ohio. 3, 1971); was not a candidate for reelection in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress; was a resident of Rapid City, BERRY, Robert Marion, a Representative from Arkan- S.Dak., until his death there on April 1, 1999. sas; born in Stuttgart, Arkansas County, Ark., August 27, 650 Biographical Directory

1942; graduated from DeWitt High School, DeWitt, Ark.; representatives 1867-1871; elected as a Republican to the B.S., University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 1965; Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the House farmer; Gillett, Ark., city council, 1976-1980; Arkansas Soil declaring that William P. Edwards was not entitled to the and Water Conservation Commission, 1986-1994; White seat and served from December 22, 1870, to March 3, 1871; House Domestic Policy Council, 1993-1996; special assistant unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870 to the Forty- to President William Clinton for Agricultural Trade and second Congress; resumed the practice of law; unsuccessful Food Assistance, 1993-1996; elected as a Democrat to the candidate for election in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress; One Hundred Fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses United States census supervisor in 1890; died in Talbotton, (January 3, 1997-present). Ga., February 20, 1895; interment in Oakhill Cemetery. BESHLIN, Earl Hanley, a Representative from Pennsyl- BETTON, Silas, a Representative from New Hampshire; vania; born in Conewango Township, Warren County, Pa., born in Londonderry, N.H., August 26, 1768; studied under April 28, 1870; graduated from Warren High School, War- a private tutor, and was graduated from Dartmouth College, ren, Pa.; lawyer, private practice; elected burgess of Warren Hanover, N.H., in 1787; studied law; was admitted to the County, 1906-1909; borough solicitor of Warren County, Pa., bar and commenced practice in Salem, Rockingham County, 1914-1918; elected as a Democrat and Prohibitionist to the N.H., in 1790; member of the State house of representatives Sixty-fifth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy 1797-1799; member of the State senate 1801-1803; elected caused by the resignation of United States Representative as a Federalist to the Eighth and Ninth Congresses (March Orrin D. Bleakley (November 6, 1917-March 3, 1919); unsuc- 4, 1803-March 3, 1807); resumed the practice of law; again cessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-sixth Congress a member of the State house of representatives in 1810 and 1811; served as high sheriff of Rockingham County in 1918; member and later chairman, Board of Education, 1813-1818; died in Salem, N.H., January 22, 1822; interment Warren County, Pa., 1919-1935; hospital executive; died on in Old Parish Cemetery, Center Village, Salem, N.H. July 12, 1971, in Warren, Pa.; interment in Oakland Mau- soleum. BETTS, Jackson Edward, a Representative from Ohio; born in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio, May 26, 1904; at- BETHUNE, Edwin Ruthvin, Jr., a Representative from tended the public schools of Findlay, Ohio; graduated from Arkansas; born in Pocahontas, Randolph County, Ark., De- Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in 1926, and from Yale cember 19, 1935; graduated from Pocahontas High School, Law School, New Haven, Conn., in 1929; was admitted to Pocahontus, Ark., 1953; B.A., University of Arkansas, Fay- the bar in 1930, and commenced the practice of law in etteville, Ark., 1961; J.D., University of Arkansas School Findlay, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Hancock County, of Law, 1963; admitted to the Arkansas Bar in 1963 and Ohio, 1933-1937; member of the State house of representa- commenced practice in Pocahontas; lawyer, private practice; tives 1937-1947, serving as speaker in 1945 and 1946; elect- admitted to practice before the United States Supreme ed as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the ten Court, 1972; United States Marine Corps, sergeant, 1954- succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1973); 1957, with service in Korea; deputy prosecuting attorney, was not a candidate in 1972 for reelection to the Ninety- Randolph County, Ark., 1963-1964; special agent, Federal third Congress; part-time teacher at Findlay College, 1973- Bureau of Investigation, 1964-1968; prosecuting attorney, 1983; acting judge, Findlay Municipal Court, 1981 to 1989; first judicial district of Arkansas, 1970-1971; chairman, was a resident of Findlay, Ohio, until his death there on Ninth District Federal Home Loan Bank Board, 1973-1976; August 13, 1993. elected as a Republican to the Ninety-sixth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1985); BETTS, Samuel Rossiter, a Representative from New was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-ninth Con- York; born in Richmond, Berkshire County, Mass., June 8, gress in 1984, but was an unsuccessful candidate for election 1787; was graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, to the United States Senate; resumed the practice of law; Mass., in 1806; studied law in Hudson, N.Y.; was admitted to the bar in 1807 and commenced practice in Monticello, is a resident of West River, Md. Sullivan County, N.Y.; served as judge advocate of Volun- BETHUNE, Lauchlin, a Representative from North teers in the War of 1812; elected as a Republican to the Carolina; born near Fayetteville, Cumberland County, N.C., Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); was April 15, 1785; attended private schools and Lumberton not a candidate for renomination in 1816; moved to New- (N.C.) Male Academy; engaged in agricultural pursuits; burgh, Orange County, N.Y., where he continued the prac- member of the State senate in 1817, 1818, 1822-1825, and tice of law; appointed circuit judge under the new State 1827; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress constitution in 1823; appointed and subsequently elected (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); unsuccessful candidate for judge of the United States District Court for the Southern reelection to the Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty- District of New York and served from 1826 until 1867, when fifth Congresses; returned to his plantation near Fayette- he resigned; died in New Haven, Conn., November 2, 1868; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City. ville, N.C., and continued agricultural pursuits until his death on October 10, 1874; interment in the Presbyterian BETTS, Thaddeus, a Senator from Connecticut; born in Cemetery, Aberdeen, Moore County, N.C. Norwalk, Conn., February 4, 1789; completed preparatory studies; was graduated from Yale College in 1807; studied BETHUNE, Marion, a Representative from Georgia; born law; was admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced prac- near Greensboro, Greene County, Ga., April 8, 1816; at- tice in Norwalk; member, State house of representatives tended private schools and De Hagan’s Academy; moved in 1815 and 1830; member, State senate 1831; elected lieu- with his widowed mother to Talbotton, Talbot County, Ga., tenant governor of Connecticut in 1832 and 1836; elected in 1829; engaged in mercantile pursuits; studied law; was as a Whig to the United States Senate and served from admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced practice at March 4, 1839, until his death in Washington, D.C., April Talbotton; probate judge of Talbot County from 1852 to 7, 1840; interment in Union Cemetery, Norwalk, Conn. 1868, when he voluntarily retired; member of the constitu- tional convention of Georgia at the time of the repeal of BEVERIDGE, Albert Jeremiah, a Senator from Indi- the ordinance of secession; member of the State house of ana; born near Sugar Tree Ridge, Concord Township, High- Biographies 651

land County, Ohio, October 6, 1862; attended the common the New York State Division of Housing and assistant to schools; graduated from Indiana Asbury (now DePauw) Uni- the secretary of state, New York State, 1961-1965; member versity, Greencastle, Ind., in 1885; studied law; admitted of the New York City Police Department, 1942-1965; retired to the bar in 1887 and commenced practice in Indianapolis, on line of duty disability as lieutenant; holds police depart- Ind.; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate ment’s medal of honor plus twenty-seven other decorations; on January 17, 1899, reelected in 1905, and served from also holds Medal of Honor for Valor from National Police March 4, 1899, until March 3, 1911; unsuccessful candidate Officers Association of America, and is included in Associa- for reelection in 1910; chairman, Committee on Forest Res- tion’s Hall of Fame; elected president, National Police Offi- ervations and Game Protection (Fifty-sixth Congress), Com- cers Association of America, 1967; elected as a Democrat mittee on Territories (Fifty-seventh through Sixty-first Con- to the Ninety-first and to the nine succeeding Congresses gresses), Committee on Indian Depredations (Fifty-ninth and served from January 3, 1969, until his resignation Au- Congress); returned to Indianapolis and engaged in literary gust 5, 1988; unsuccessful candidate in 1992 for nomination to the One Hundred Third Congress; is a resident of the and historical pursuits; unsuccessful Progressive candidate Bronx, N.Y. for Governor of Indiana in 1912; chairman of the National Progressive Convention at Chicago in 1912; unsuccessful BIBB, George Mortimer, a Senator from Kentucky; born candidate as a Progressive in 1914 and as a Republican in Prince Edward County, Va., October 30, 1776; pursued in 1922 for election to the United States Senate; died in preparatory studies; graduated from Hampden-Sidney (Va.) Indianapolis, Ind., April 27, 1927; interment in Crown Hill College and from William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Cemetery. Va., in 1792; studied law; admitted to the bar and practiced Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- for a short time in Virginia; moved to Lexington, Ky., in ography; Bowers, Claude. Beveridge and the Progressive Era. Boston: 1798; elected to the State house of representatives in 1806, Houghton-Mifflin Company, 1932; Braeman, John. Albert J. Beveridge: 1810, and 1817; appointed judge of the Kentucky Court of American Nationalist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971. Appeals 1808; chief justice of that court 1809-1810, when BEVERIDGE, John Lourie, a Representative from Illi- he resigned; elected as a Democratic Republican to the nois; born in Greenwich, Washington County, N.Y., July United States Senate and served from March 4, 1811, to 6, 1824; attended the public schools; moved with his parents August 23, 1814, when he resigned; resumed the practice of law in Lexington; moved to Frankfort in 1816; was again to De Kalb, Ill., in 1842; attended the Rock River Seminary, appointed chief justice of the court of appeals 1827-1828, Mount Morris, Ill.; moved to Tennessee in 1845 and taught when he again resigned; elected to the United States Senate school until 1851; studied law; was admitted to the bar as a Jacksonian and served from March 4, 1829, to March and practiced; moved to Sycamore, Ill., in 1851 and contin- 3, 1835; chairman, Committee on Post Office and Post Roads ued the practice of law; moved to Evanston in 1854 and (Twenty-first Congress); chancellor of the Louisville chancery practiced law in Chicago; during the Civil War served in court 1835-1844; appointed Secretary of the Treasury in the the Union Army; appointed major of the Eighth Illinois Cav- Cabinet of President John Tyler 1844-1845; resumed the alry September 18, 1861; colonel of the Seventeenth Illinois practice of law in Washington, D.C., and was an assistant Cavalry January 28, 1864; brevetted brigadier general and in the office of the Attorney General; died in Georgetown, mustered out February 7, 1866; elected sheriff of Cook Coun- D.C., April 14, 1859; buried in Congressional Cemetery, but ty, Ill., in 1866; member of the State senate in 1871; re- removed from that location on June 18, 1859; final inter- signed, having been elected as a Republican to the Forty- ment location unknown. second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Goff, John. ‘‘The Last of John A. Logan and served from November 7, 1871, until Leaf: George Mortimer Bibb.’’ Register of the Kentucky Historical Society January 4, 1873, when he resigned; elected Lieutenant Gov- 59 (1961): 331-42. ernor of Illinois in 1872 and upon the resignation of Gov. BIBB, William Wyatt, a Representative and a Senator R. J. Oglesby in 1873 became Governor and served from from Georgia; born in Amelia County, Va., October 2, 1781; January 23, 1873, to January 1877; United States subtreas- pursued an academic course; attended William and Mary urer at Chicago 1877-1881; moved to California in 1895 and College, Williamsburg, Va., and graduated from the medical resided in Hollywood, until his death on May 3, 1910; inter- department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadel- ment in Rose Hill Cemetery, Chicago, Ill. phia in 1801; moved to Petersburg, Elbert County, Ga., and BEVILL, Tom, a Representative from Alabama; born in began the practice of medicine; member, State house of rep- Townley, Walker County, Ala., March 27, 1921; graduated resentatives 1803-1805; resumed the practice of medicine; from Walker County High School in 1939; graduated from elected as a Democratic Republican to the Ninth Congress University of Alabama School of Commerce and Business to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas Spalding; reelected to the Tenth and to the three succeeding Administration in 1943; graduated from University of Ala- Congresses and served from January 26, 1807, until his bama School of Law in 1948; entered United States Army resignation November 6, 1813, having been elected Senator; in 1943; served in European theater of operations; retired elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States lieutenant colonel, United States Army; practiced law in Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Wil- Jasper, Ala.; elected to the State house of representatives liam H. Crawford and served from November 6, 1813, to in 1958 and reelected in 1962; elected as a Democrat to November 9, 1816, when he resigned; moved to Alabama the Ninetieth and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses Territory and was appointed the first Territorial Governor; (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1997); was not a candidate elected as the first Governor under the State Constitution for reelection to the One Hundred Fifth Congress. and served from March 1817 until his death near Coosada Station, Elmore County, Ala., July 9, 1820; interment in BIAGGI, Mario, a Representative from New York; born the family cemetery, Coosada Station, Ala. in New York City October 26, 1917; graduated from P.S. Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- 171 and Harren High School, New York City; LL.B., New ography; Mellichamp, Josephine. ‘‘William Bibb.’’ In Senators From Geor- York Law School, 1963; admitted to the bar of the State giaHuntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers, 1976, . pp. 72-74; Bibb, William of New York; senior partner of Biaggi, Ehrich & Lang, New Wyatt. In Inquiry into the Modus Operandi of Medicines Upon the Human York City; served as community relations specialist with Body. Philadelphia: Carr Smith, 1801. 652 Biographical Directory

BIBIGHAUS, Thomas Marshal, a Representative from Pa., April 30, 1819; was graduated from Princeton College Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 17, 1817; in 1837; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted menced practice in Philadelphia in 1840; served in the Mexi- to the bar in 1839 and commenced practice in Lebanon, can War and was brevetted major for meritorious services; Pa.; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March resumed the practice of law in Philadelphia; entered the 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); was not a candidate for renomina- Union Army in 1861 as colonel of a regiment of the Pennsyl- tion in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress owing to ill health; vania Reserve Corps; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty- resumed the practice of law in Lebanon, Lebanon County, seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- Pa., and died there June 18, 1853; interment in Mount Leb- tion of E. Joy Morris and served from July 2, 1861, to anon Cemetery. March 3, 1863; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress; chairman of the Democratic BIBLE, Alan Harvey, a Senator from Nevada; born in State central committee in 1863; one of the proprietors and Lovelock, Pershing County, Nev., November 20, 1909; grad- editor in chief of the Philadelphia Age until his death in uated from the University of Nevada at Reno in 1930 and from Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia September 28, 1873; interment in Old St. Pe- in 1934; admitted to the Nevada bar in 1935 and commenced ter’s Church Cemetery. the practice of law in Reno, Nev.; district attorney of Storey BIDDLE, Edward (uncle of ), a Delegate County 1935-1938; appointed deputy attorney general of Ne- from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1738; en- vada in 1938; State attorney 1942-1950; resumed private tered the provincial army as an ensign in 1754, promoted practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the United States to lieutenant and captain, and served until 1763, when he Senate, November 2, 1954, to fill the vacancy caused by resigned; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- the death of Patrick A. McCarran for the term ending Janu- menced practice in Reading, Pa.; member of the State as- ary 3, 1957; reelected in 1956, 1962, and again in 1968 sembly 1767-1775, serving as speaker in 1774; member of and served from December 2, 1954, until his resignation the provincial convention held at Philadelphia in 1775; again December 17, 1974; was not a candidate for reelection in a member of the State assembly in 1778; Member of the 1974; chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Eighty- Continental Congresses in 1774 and 1775; died at fifth through Ninetieth Congresses), Joint Committee on Chatsworth, near Baltimore, Md., September 5, 1779; inter- Washington Metropolitan Problems (Eighty-fifth and Eighty- sixth Congresses), Select Committee on Small Business ment in St. Paul’s Churchyard, Baltimore, Md. (Ninety-first through Ninety-third Congresses); resumed the BIDDLE, John, a Delegate from the Territory of Michi- practice of law; died in Auburn, Ca., September 12, 1988; gan; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 2, 1792; attended interment in Masonic Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Reno, the common schools and Princeton College; enlisted in the Nev. War of 1812; appointed a second lieutenant in the Third Bibliography: American National Biography; Scribner Encyclopedia of Artillery July 6, 1812, first lieutenant March 13, 1813, and American Lives; Elliott, Gary E. Senator Alan Bible and the Politics of the New West. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1994. captain in the Forty-second Infantry October 1, 1813; assist- ant inspector general with the rank of major, June 19, 1817- BICKNELL, Bennet, a Representative from New York; June 1, 1821; attached to the staff of General Scott on born in Mansfield, Conn., November 14, 1781; attended the the Niagara frontier; paymaster and Indian agent at Green public schools; moved to Morrisville, N.Y., in 1808; served Bay, Wis., 1821 and 1822; register of the land at Detroit, in the War of 1812; member of the State assembly in 1812; Territory of Michigan, 1823-1837; commissioner for deter- served in the State senate 1814-1818; clerk of Madison mining the ancient land claims at Detroit, Mackinaw, Sault County, N.Y., 1821-1825; editor of the Madison Observer; Ste. Marie, Green Bay, and Prairie du Chien; mayor of De- elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March troit in 1827 and 1828; elected a Delegate from the Territory 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); unsuccessful candidate for reelection of Michigan to the Twenty-first Congress and served until in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress; died in Morrisville, his resignation on February 21, 1831 (March 4, 1829-Feb- Madison County, N.Y., September 15, 1841; interment in ruary 21, 1831); president of the convention that framed Morrisville Rural Cemetery. the State constitution for Michigan, 1835; president of the Michigan Central Railroad Co., 1835; unsuccessful candidate BICKNELL, George Augustus, a Representative from for election to the United States Senate in 1835; unsuccess- Indiana; born in Philadelphia, Pa., February 6, 1815; was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadel- ful candidate for Governor of Michigan; member of the State phia in 1831; attended Yale Law School one year; completed house of representatives in 1841 and served as speaker; the study of law; was admitted to the bar in 1836 and retired from public life and active pursuits and resided on commenced practice in New York City; moved to Lexington, his farm near Wyandotte, Mich.; later spent much time on Scott County, Ind., in 1846; elected prosecuting attorney his estate near St. Louis, Gratiot County, Mich.; went to of Scott County in 1848; circuit prosecutor in 1850; moved White Sulphur Springs, Va., for the summer, and died there to New Albany in 1851; judge of the second judicial circuit August 25, 1859; interment in Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, of Indiana 1852-1876; professor of law at the University Mich. of Indiana 1861-1870; elected as a Democrat to the Forty- BIDDLE, Joseph Franklin, a Representative from Penn- fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, sylvania; born near Bedford, Bedford County, Pa., September 1881); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1880; ap- pointed commissioner of appeals in the supreme court of 14, 1871; educated in the public schools; was graduated from Indiana in 1881, which office he held until the completion Millersville State Teachers’ College at Millersville, Pa., in of its work in 1885; resumed the practice of law; elected 1894 and from the law department of Dickinson College, judge of the circuit court of Indiana in 1889 and held that Carlisle, Pa., in 1897; was admitted to the bar in 1897 office until his death, April 11, 1891, in New Albany, Floyd and commenced practice in Bedford, Pa.; moved to Everett, County, Ind.; interment in Fairview Cemetery. Pa., in 1903 and engaged in the practice of law and in newspaper publishing; moved to Huntingdon, Pa., in 1918 BIDDLE, Charles John (nephew of Richard Biddle), a and engaged in the printing and publishing business and Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, in banking; member of the Pennsylvania Publishers’ Associa- Biographies 653

tion 1924-1936; director of the National Editorial Association from March 4, 1805, until his resignation on July 13, 1807; 1926-1936; member of the Republican State committee 1932- attorney general of Massachusetts from June 15, 1807, to 1936; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-second Con- August 30, 1810; moved to Canada about 1815 and settled gress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward near Kingston; became interested in political affairs and M. Beers and served from November 8, 1932, to March engaged in the practice of law; died in Kingston, Ontario, 3, 1933; was not a candidate for election to the Seventy- Canada, July 27, 1833; interment in Cataraqui Cemetery, third Congress in 1932; resumed the printing and newspaper Cataraqui, Ontario. publishing business in Huntingdon, Pa., where he died on December 3, 1936; interment in Trinity Churchyard, BIDWELL, John, a Representative from California; born Friends’ Cove, near Bedford, Pa. in Chautauqua County, N.Y., August 5, 1819; moved with his parents to Erie, Pa., in 1829 and to Ashtabula County, BIDDLE, Richard (nephew of and uncle Ohio, in 1831; attended the country schools and Kingsville of ), a Representative from Pennsyl- Academy, Ashtabula, Ohio; taught school in Ohio; spent two vania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 25, 1796; pursued years in Missouri and taught school; crossed the Rockies classical studies; was graduated from the University of and Sierras with the first overland expedition, arriving in Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1811; served as a volunteer the Sacramento Valley, California, on November 4, 1841; in the Washington Guards during the War of 1812; studied secured employment on the ranch of John A. Sutter; later law; was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1817 and engaged in mining; served in the War with Mexico, attaining commenced practice in Pittsburgh the same year; went to the rank of major; member of the State senate in 1849; England in 1827, remained there three years, and published supervisor in California of the United States census in 1850 works upon American discovery and travel; elected as an and in 1860; delegate to the Democratic National Convention Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty- at Charleston in 1860; was appointed brigadier general of sixth Congresses and served from March 4, 1837, until his the California Militia in 1863; delegate to the Republican resignation in 1840; resumed the practice of law in Pitts- National Convention in 1864; elected as a Republican to burgh, Pa., where he died on July 6, 1847; interment in the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); Allegheny Cemetery. chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Thirty-ninth Con- gress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1866; en- BIDEN, Joseph Robinette, Jr., a Senator from Dela- gaged extensively in agricultural pursuits; unsuccessful can- ware; born in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pa., November didate for Governor of California in 1875 on the Anti-Monop- 20, 1942; educated at St. Helena’s School, Wilmington, Del., oly ticket; presided over the Prohibition State convention and Archmere Academy, Claymont, Del.; graduated, Univer- in 1888 and was the unsuccessful candidate of that party sity of Delaware, Newark, 1965, and Syracuse (N.Y.) Univer- for Governor of California in 1890 and for President of the sity College of Law 1968; admitted to the Delaware bar United States in 1892; died in Chico, Butte County, Calif., in 1969 and commenced practice in Wilmington; served on April 4, 1900; interment in Chico Cemetery. the New Castle County Council 1970-1972; elected as a Bibliography: Benjamin, Marcus. John Bidwell, Pioneer: A Sketch of Democrat to the United States Senate in 1972 and reelected His Career. Washington: N.p., 1907; Royce, C. C. John Bidwell; Pioneer in 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996, and again in 2002 for the term Statesman, Philanthropist: A Biographical Sketch. Chico, California, 1906. ending January 3, 2009; chair, Committee on the Judiciary (1987-1995), Committee on Foreign Relations (January 3- BIEMILLER, Andrew John, a Representative from Wis- 20, 2001; June 6, 2001-January 3, 2003). consin; born in Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio, July 23, 1906; attended the public schools; was graduated from Cornell BIDLACK, Benjamin Alden, a Representative from University, Ithaca, N.Y., A.B., 1926, and also took graduate Pennsylvania; born in Paris, Oneida County, N.Y., Sep- work at the University of Pennsylvania; taught history at tember 8, 1804; moved to Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; attended the Syracuse (N.Y.) University 1926-1928 and at the University public schools; was graduated from the Wilkes-Barre Acad- of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia 1929-1931; moved to Mil- emy; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and waukee, Wis., in 1932; organizer from the Wisconsin State commenced practice in Wilkes-Barre; elected district attor- Federation of Labor (A. F. of L.); member of the State assem- ney of Luzerne County in 1825; moved to Milford, Pike bly 1937-1941, serving as party floor leader 1939-1941; as- County, Pa., in 1830; county treasurer in 1834; returned sistant to the vice chairman for labor production, War Pro- to Wilkes-Barre; elected a member of the State house of duction Board, Washington, D.C., 1941-1944; elected as a representatives in 1835 and 1836; editor of the Republican Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, 1945- Farmer and the Democratic Journal, Wilkes-Barre; elected January 3, 1947); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; engaged as a public rela- Congresses (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1845); appointed tions counselor; delegate, Democratic National Convention Charge´ d’Affaires to Colombia May 14, 1845; successfully in 1948; elected to the Eighty-first Congress (January 3, negotiated a ‘‘treaty of peace, amity, and navigation’’ with 1949-January 3, 1951); unsuccessful candidate for reelection Colombia and secured for the United States the right to in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress; special assistant to build a canal or railroad across the Isthmus of Panama; the Secretary of the Interior, 1951-1952; public relations died in Bogota, Colombia, February 6, 1849; interment in counselor and lobbyist for the AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C., the English Cemetery. 1953-1979; resided in Bethesda, Md. until his death there on April 3, 1982; interment in Ellicott Family Cemetery, BIDWELL, Barnabas, a Representative from Massachu- Ellicott, Md. setts; born in Tyringham (now Monterey), Mass., August 23, 1763; was graduated from Yale College in 1785; studied BIERMANN, Frederick Elliott, a Representative from law at Brown University, Providence, R.I.; was admitted Iowa; born in Rochester, Olmstead County, Minn., March to the bar in 1805 and commenced practice in Stockbridge, 20, 1884; moved to Decorah, Iowa, in 1888; attended the Mass.; served in the State senate 1801-1804; member of public and high schools of Decorah, Iowa, and the University the State house of representatives 1805-1807; elected as a of Minnesota at Minneapolis; was graduated from Columbia Republican to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses and served University, New York City, in 1905 and later attended 654 Biographical Directory

Valder’s Business College, Decorah, Iowa, and Harvard Law BIGELOW, Abijah, a Representative from Massachu- School; homesteaded in North Dakota in 1906 and 1907; setts; born in Westminster, Mass., on December 5, 1775; editor and publisher of the Decorah (Iowa) Journal 1908- attended Leicester (Mass.) Academy and an academy at New 1931; volunteered for service in the United States Army Ipswich, N.H.; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Han- during the First World War; was commissioned a second over, N.H., in 1795; studied law in Groton, Mass.; was ad- lieutenant August 15, 1917, and a first lieutenant on Decem- mitted to the bar in 1798 and commenced practice in Leom- ber 31, 1917, in the Eighty-eighth Division; served from inster, Mass., in the same year; town clerk of Leominster April 1917 until June 1919, being overseas ten months; post- 1803-1809; member of the State house of representatives master of Decorah, Iowa, 1913-1923; served as park commis- 1807-1809; justice of the peace 1809-1860 and justice of the sioner of Decorah beginning in 1922; delegate to the Demo- quorum 1812-1860; elected as a Federalist to the Eleventh cratic National Conventions in 1928, 1940, and 1956; dele- Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of gate to the Interparliamentary Union Conference at Paris ; reelected to the Twelfth and Thirteenth in 1937; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third, Sev- Congresses and served from October 8, 1810, to March 3, enty-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1933- 1815; moved to Worcester in 1817; clerk of the courts of January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in Worcester County 1817-1833; resumed the practice of law; 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; appointed United States served as trustee of Leicester Academy in 1819 and 1820 Marshal for northern Iowa in October 1940, in which capac- and as treasurer 1820-1853; appointed a master in chancery ity he served until 1953; died in La Crosse, Wis., July 1, in 1838; died in Worcester, Worcester County, Mass., April 1968; interment in Phelps Cemetery, Decorah, Iowa. 5, 1860; interment in the Rural Cemetery. BIERY, James Soloman, a Representative from Pennsyl- BIGELOW, Herbert Seely, a Representative from Ohio; vania; born on a farm near Emlenton, Venango County, born in Elkhart, Elkhart County, Ind., January 4, 1870; Pa., March 2, 1839; attended the district schools, a select attended the public schools, and Oberlin College, Oberlin, school of the county, and Emlenton (Pa.) Academy; taught Ohio; was graduated from Western Reserve University, school for three years in the oil regions of Pennsylvania; Cleveland, Ohio, in 1894; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and moved to Allentown, Lehigh County, Pa., in 1861 and contin- studied in Lane Theological Seminary; ordained as a Con- ued teaching for eight years; studied theology for two years; gregational minister in 1895 and became pastor of the Vine subsequently studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1868 Street Congregational Church in Cincinnati, Ohio; delegate and commenced practice in Allentown; member of the State to the fourth constitutional convention of Ohio in 1912, serv- house of representatives in 1869; elected as a Republican ing as president; member of the State house of representa- to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); tives in 1913 and 1914; served in the Cincinnati City Coun- was not a candidate for renomination in 1874; resumed the cil 1936; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress practice of law at Allentown and also engaged in literary (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate pursuits; died in Allentown, Pa., December 3, 1904; inter- for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; member ment in Fairview Cemetery. of the city council in 1940 and 1941; resumed his duties as pastor of the Vine Street Congregational Church (Peoples BIESTER, Edward George, Jr., a Representative from Church), Cincinnati, Ohio, where he died November 11, Pennsylvania; born in Trevose, Bucks County, Pa., January 1951; remains were cremated and the ashes scattered over 5, 1931; attended Doylestown public schools; graduated from his farm near Forestville, Hamilton County, Ohio. the George School, Newtown, Pa., 1948; B.A., Wesleyan Uni- Bibliography: Beaver, Daniel R. A Buckeye Crusader: A Sketch of the versity, 1952; D.L., Temple University School of Law, 1955; Political Career of Herbert Seely Bigelow, Preacher, Prophet, Politician. admitted to Pennsylvania bar in 1956; assistant district at- Cincinnati, Ohio: Privately printed, 1957. torney, Bucks County, 1958-1964; elected as a Republican BIGELOW, Lewis, a Representative from Massachusetts; to the Ninetieth and to the four succeeding Congresses (Jan- born in Petersham, Worcester County, Mass., August 18, uary 3, 1967-January 3, 1977); was not a candidate for re- 1785; was graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, election to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976; attorney gen- Mass., in 1803; studied law; was admitted to the bar and eral, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1979-1980; judge, commenced practice in Petersham; member of the State sen- court of common pleas of Bucks County, seventh judicial ate 1819-1821; editor of the first seventeen volumes of Mas- district, 1980 to present; member, Office of Military Commis- sachusetts Reports and of a digest of six volumes of sions, Department of Defense, 2003 to present; is a resident Pickering’s Reports; elected as a Federalist to the Seven- of Furlong, Pa. teenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823); moved to Peoria, Ill., in 1831 and continued the practice of law; inter- BIGBY, John Summerfield, a Representative from ested in the real estate business and in the operation of Georgia; born near Newnan, Coweta County, Ga., February ferry boats; served as justice of the peace; appointed clerk 13, 1832; attended the common schools; was graduated from of the circuit court of Peoria County, November 26, 1835, Emory College, Oxford, Ga., in 1853; studied law; was ad- and served until his death in Peoria, Ill., October 2, 1838; mitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in interment presumed to be in the Old Centre Cemetery, Newnan, Coweta County, Ga.; member of the State constitu- Petersham, Mass. tional conventions of 1867-1868; solicitor general of the Tallapoosa circuit from August 1867 to September 22, 1868; BIGGERT, Judith Borg, a Representative from Illinois; judge of the superior court of the same circuit from Sep- born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., August 15, 1937; at- tember 22, 1868, to March 3, 1871; elected as a Republican tended New Trier High School, Winnetka, Ill.; B.A., Stanford to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); University, Stanford, Calif., 1959; J.D., Northwestern Uni- unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1872 to the Forty- versity Law School, Evanston, Ill., 1963; clerk to Judge Lu- third Congress; resumed the practice of law in Atlanta, Ga.; ther M. Swygert, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, 1963- delegate to the Republican National Convention at Cin- 1964; member of the Illinois state general assembly, 1993- cinnati in 1876; became president of the Atlanta & West 1998; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Sixth Point Railroad in 1876; died in Atlanta, Ga., March 28, and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1999- 1898; interment in West View Cemetery. present). Biographies 655

BIGGS, Asa, a Representative and a Senator from North Clearfield County, Pa., in 1833 and established the Carolina; born in Williamston, Martin County, N.C., Feb- Clearfield Democrat; engaged in the lumber business; mem- ruary 4, 1811; attended the common schools; pursued clas- ber, State senate 1841-1847, twice serving as speaker; elect- sical studies; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1831 and ed Governor in 1851 and served one term; president, Phila- commenced practice in Williamston, N.C.; member of the delphia and Erie Railroad; elected as a Democrat to the State constitutional convention in 1835; member, State United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term com- house of commons 1840-1842; member, State senate 1844- mencing March 4, 1855, caused by failure of the legislature 1845; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress to elect and served from January 14, 1856, to March 3, (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); unsuccessful candidate for 1861; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chairman, Com- reelection in 1846; member of a commission to codify the mittee on Engrossed Bills (Thirty-sixth Congress), Com- State laws in 1851; elected as a Democrat to the United mittee on Patents and Patent Office (Thirty-sixth Congress); States Senate and served from March 4, 1855, until May member of the constitutional convention of Pennsylvania, 5, 1858, when he resigned, having been appointed United 1873; member of the board of finance of the Centennial States judge of the district of North Carolina by President Exposition in 1876; died in Clearfield, Pa., August 9, 1880; ; served as judge of the district court until interment in Hillcrest Cemetery. 1861; member of the secession convention of North Carolina Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- in 1861; Confederate judge 1861-1865; resumed the practice ography. of law in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, N.C., in 1865; moved to Norfolk, Va., in 1869 and continued the practice of law BILBO, Theodore Gilmore, a Senator from Mississippi; until his death in that city on March 6, 1878; interment born on a farm near Poplarville, Pearl River County, Miss., in Elmwood Cemetery. October 13, 1877; attended the public schools, Peabody Col- Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Biggs, Asa. Autobiog- lege, Nashville, Tenn., the law department of Vanderbilt raphy of , Including a Journal of a Trip from North Carolina University, Nashville, Tenn., and the University of Michigan to New York in 1832. Edited by Robert D. W. Connor. North Carolina at Ann Arbor; teacher in district and high schools of Mis- Historical Commission Publications. Bulletin No. 19. Raleigh: Edwards and sissippi for five years; admitted to the bar in 1908 and Broughton Printing Company, 1915. commenced practice in Poplarville, Miss.; member, State senate 1908-1912; elected lieutenant governor 1912-1916; BIGGS, Benjamin Thomas, a Representative from Dela- twice elected Governor and served 1916-1920 and 1928-1932; ware; born near Summit Bridge, New Castle County, Del., elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1934, October 1, 1821; attended the public schools and Pennington 1940 and again in 1946 and served from January 3, 1935, Seminary in New Jersey; taught school for a short time until his death in New Orleans on August 21, 1947; did and later attended the Wesleyan University, Middletown, not take the oath of office in 1947 at the beginning of the Conn.; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State Eightieth Congress; chairman, Committee on District of Co- constitutional convention in 1853; became interested in rail- lumbia (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses), road operations and was a director of the Kent & Queen Committee on Pensions (Seventy-eighth Congress); inter- Annes Railroad; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for elec- ment in Juniper Grove Cemetery, near Poplarville, Miss. tion in 1860 to the Thirty-seventh Congress; elected as a Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- Democrat to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses ography; Morgan, Chester. Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1873); was not a candidate for New Deal. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985; Smith, renomination in 1872; delegate to the Democratic National Charles P. ‘‘Theodore G. Bilbo’s Senatorial Career, The Final Years: 1941- Convention in 1872; elected Governor of Delaware and 1947.’’ Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 1983. served from January 1887 to January 1891; died in Middle- town, New Castle County, Del., December 25, 1893; inter- BILBRAY, Brian P. (cousin of James Hubert Bilbray), ment in Bethel Cemetery, near Chesapeake City, Cecil a Representative from California; born in Coronado, Calif., County, Md. January 28, 1951; graduated Mar Vista High School; at- tended South Western College; tax consultant; city council; BIGGS, Marion, a Representative from California; born Imperial Beach, Calif., 1976-1978; mayor, Imperial Beach, near Curryville, Pike County, Mo., May 2, 1823; attended Calif., 1978-1985; San Diego County Board of Supervisors, the common schools; moved to California in 1850; returned 1985-1995; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred to Missouri; was elected sheriff of Monroe County, Mo., in Fourth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1852 and reelected in 1854; returned to California in 1864; 1995-January 3, 2001); unsuccessful candidate for reelection was a cattle buyer and was also engaged in agricultural to the One Hundred Seventh Congress. pursuits; elected to the State assembly from Sacramento County in 1867 and from Butte County in 1869; elected BILBRAY, James Hubert (cousin of Brian P. Bilbray), to the State constitutional convention from the State at large a Representative from Nevada; born in Las Vegas, Clark in 1878; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and Fifty- County, Nev., May 19, 1938; graduated from Las Vegas High first Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); was not School, Las Vegas, Nev.; attended the University of Nevada, a candidate for renomination in 1890 to the Fifty-second Las Vegas, Nev., 1959-1960; B.A., American University, Congress; commissioner to attend the centennial celebration Washington, D.C., 1962; J.D., American University Law of the inauguration of George Washington as President of School, Washington, D.C., 1965; Nevada Army National the United States, in 1889; resided in Gridley, Butte County, Guard, 1955-1956; Nevada Army National Guard Reserve, Calif., and lived in retirement until his death there on Au- 1957-1963; lawyer, private practice; deputy district attorney, gust 2, 1910; interment in Helvetia Cemetery, Sacramento, Clark County, Nev., 1965-1967; chief legal counsel juvenile Calif. court, Clark County, Nev., 1967-1968; alternate judge, city of Las Vegas, Nev., 1978-1980; member of the Nevada state BIGLER, William, a Senator from Pennsylvania; born senate, 1981-1987; elected as a Democrat to the One Hun- in Cumberland County (now Spring Township, Perry Coun- dredth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January ty), Pa., on January 1, 1814; attended the public schools 3, 1987-January 3, 1995); unsuccessful candidate for reelec- and was tutored by older brother John Bigler; in 1829 was tion to the One Hundred Fourth Congress in 1996; is a apprenticed to the printing trade; moved to Clearfield, resident of Las Vegas, Nev. 656 Biographical Directory

BILIRAKIS, Michael, a Representative from Florida; BINGAMAN, Jesse Francis, Jr. (Jeff), a Senator from born in Tarpon Springs, Pinellas County, Fla., July 16, 1930; New Mexico; born in El Paso, Tex., October 3, 1943; at- attended public schools in Clairton, Pa.; graduated from tended public schools of Silver City, N.Mex.; graduated, Har- Douglas Business College, McKeesport, Pa., 1949; B.S., Uni- vard College 1965 and Stanford Law School 1968; served versity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1959; attended George in the United States Army Reserve 1968-1974; admitted Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1960; J.D., Uni- to the New Mexico bar 1968; assistant New Mexico attorney versity of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., 1963; United States Air general 1969; counsel to State constitutional convention Force, 1950-1954; steelworker; engineer; college instructor; 1969; commenced private practice in 1970; elected New Mex- lawyer, private practice; municipal judge, city of Tarpon ico attorney general 1979-1982; elected as a Democrat to Springs, Fla., and city of New Port Richey, Fla.; elected the United States Senate in 1982 for the term commencing as a Republican to the Ninety-eighth and to the ten suc- January 3, 1983; reelected in 1988, 1994, and again in 2000 ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-present). for the term ending January 3, 2007; chairman, Senate Im- peachment Trial Committee (1989-1991), Committee on En- BILLINGHURST, Charles, a Representative from Wis- ergy and Natural Resources (January 3-20, 2001; June 6, consin; born in Brighton, Franklin County, N.Y., July 27, 2001-January 3, 2003). 1818; attended the common schools; studied law; was admit- ted to the bar in 1847 and commenced practice in Rochester, BINGHAM, Henry Harrison, a Representative from N.Y.; moved to Wisconsin the same year and settled in Ju- Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., December 4, 1841; neau, Dodge County; continued the practice of his profession; was graduated from Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa., in elected as a member of the first State legislature of Wis- 1862 and from the law department of Washington and Jef- consin in 1848; was elected a presidential elector on the ferson College, Washington, Pa.; during the Civil War en- Democratic ticket in 1852; elected as a Republican to the tered the Union Army as a first lieutenant in the One Hun- Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1855- dred and Fortieth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infan- March 3, 1859); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1858 try, August 22, 1862; commissioned captain September 9, to the Thirty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law 1862; major and judge advocate September 20, 1864; in Juneau, Wis., where he died August 18, 1865; interment brevetted major of Volunteers August 1, 1864; brevetted in Juneau Cemetery. lieutenant colonel of Volunteers April 9, 1865; colonel and brigadier general of Volunteers April 9, 1865; honorably BILLMEYER, Alexander, a Representative from Penn- mustered out of service July 2, 1866; awarded a Congres- sylvania; born in Liberty Township, Montour County, Pa., sional Medal of Honor August 26, 1893, for actions at the January 7, 1841; attended the common schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; interested in the manufacture of lum- Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, May 6, 1864; appointed ber; director of a national bank in Washingtonville, Montour postmaster of Philadelphia in March 1867 and served until County, Pa.; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh Con- December 1872, when he resigned to accept the clerkship gress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rufus K. of the courts of oyer and terminer and quarter sessions Polk and served from November 4, 1902, to March 3, 1903; of the peace in Philadelphia, having been elected by the was not a candidate for renomination in 1902; resumed agri- people; reelected clerk of courts in 1875; delegate to the cultural pursuits in Montour County, Pa.; died near Republican National Conventions 1872-1900; elected as a Washingtonville, Pa., May 24, 1924; interment in Odd Fel- Republican to the Forty-sixth and to the sixteen succeeding lows Cemetery, Danville, Pa. Congresses and served from March 4, 1879, until his death in Philadelphia March 22, 1912; chairman, Committee on BINDERUP, Charles Gustav, a Representative from Ne- the Post Office and Post Roads (Forty-seventh and Fifty- braska; born in Horsens, Denmark, March 5, 1873; when first Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in the Post six months old immigrated to the United States with his Office Department (Fifty-fourth Congress); interment in parents, who settled on a farm near Hastings, Adams Coun- Laurel Hill Cemetery. ty, Nebr.; attended the county schools and Grand Island (Nebr.) Business College; engaged in agricultural pursuits BINGHAM, Hiram (father of Jonathan Brewster Bing- near Hastings and Minden, Nebr., and also in the mercantile ham), a Senator from Connecticut; born in Honolulu, Ha- and creamery business at Minden, Nebr.; elected as a Demo- waii, November 19, 1875; educated at Punahou School and crat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses Oahu College, Hawaii, 1882-1892, Phillips Academy, Ando- (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1939); was an unsuccessful can- ver, Mass., 1892-1894, Yale University 1894-1898, Univer- didate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress sity of California at Berkeley 1899-1900, and Harvard Uni- and for election as an Independent in 1940 to the Seventy- versity 1900-1905; professor of history and politics at Har- seventh Congress; organized and was active in the Constitu- vard and then Princeton Universities; South American ex- tional Money League of America in Minden, Nebr., until plorer, credited with the discovery of the Incan ruins at his death; died in Minden, Nebr., August 19, 1950; inter- Machu Picchu; delegate to the First Pan American Scientific ment in Minden Cemetery. Congress at Santiago, , in 1908; captain, Connecticut National Guard 1916; became an aviator in the spring of BINES, Thomas, a Representative from New Jersey; born 1917; organized the United States Schools of Military Aero- in Trenton, N.J., birth date unknown; attended the common nautics in May 1917; served in the Aviation Section, Signal schools; appointed coroner for Salem County on October 16, Corps, and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel; com- 1802; elected sheriff of Salem County in 1808 and served manded the flying school at Issoudun, France, from August until 1810; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth Con- to December 1918; lieutenant governor of Connecticut 1922- gress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United 1924; elected Governor of Connecticut on November 4, 1924 States Representative Jacob Hufty (November 2, 1814- but served only briefly; elected as a Republican to the March 3, 1815); was not a candidate for renomination to United States Senate on December 16, 1924, to fill the va- the Fourteenth Congress in 1814; elected justice of the peace cancy caused by the death of Frank B. Brandegee in the of Lower Penns Neck Township in 1822 and served in this term ending March 3, 1927; reelected in 1926 and served capacity until 1826; died in Lower Penns Neck Township, from December 17, 1924, to March 3, 1933; unsuccessful Salem County, April 9, 1826. candidate for reelection in 1932; chairman, Committee on Biographies 657

Printing (Seventieth Congress), Committee on Territories N.Y., December 16, 1808; attended the common schools; and Insular Possessions (Seventieth through Seventy-second studied law in Syracuse, N.Y.; moved to Green Oak, Mich., Congresses); censured by the Senate in 1929 on charges in 1833; admitted to the bar and practiced law; engaged of placing of a lobbyist on his payroll; appointed a member in agricultural pursuits; held a number of local offices, in- of the President’s Aircraft Board by President Calvin Coo- cluding those of justice of the peace, postmaster, and first lidge 1925; engaged in banking and literary work in Wash- judge of probate of Livingston County; member, Michigan ington, D.C.; during the Second World War, lectured at house of representatives 1837; reelected four times and naval training schools 1942-1943; chairman of the Civil served as speaker for three terms; elected as a Democrat Service Commission’s Loyalty Review Board 1951-1953; died to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1847- in Washington, D.C., June 6, 1956; interment in Arlington March 3, 1851); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. the Department of State (Thirty-first Congress); was not Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Miller, Frank a candidate for reelection in 1850; resumed agricultural pur- L.Fathers and Sons: The Bingham Family and the American Mission. suits; elected Governor in 1854 and was reelected in 1856; Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982; Bingham, Woodbridge. Hiram instrumental in establishing the Michigan Agricultural Col- Bingham: A Personal History. Boulder: Bin Lan Zhen Publishers, 1989. lege and other educational institutions; elected as a Repub- BINGHAM, John Armor, a Representative from Ohio; lican to the United States Senate and served from March born in Mercer, Mercer County, Pa., January 21, 1815; pur- 4, 1859, until his death on October 5, 1861; chairman, Com- sued academic studies; apprentice in a printing office for mittee on Enrolled Bills (Thirty-seventh Congress); died in two years; attended Franklin College, Ohio; studied law; Green Oak, Livingston County, Mich.; interment in Old Vil- was admitted to the bar in 1840 and commenced practice lage Cemetery, Brighton, Livingston County, Mich. in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio; district at- Bibliography: McDaid, William. ‘‘Kinsley S. Bingham and the Repub- torney for Tuscarawas County, Ohio, 1846-1849; elected as lican Ideology of Slavery, 1847-1855.’’ Michigan Historical Review 16 (Fall a Republican to the Thirty-fourth and to the three suc- 1990): 43-73. ceeding Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1863); unsuc- BINGHAM, William, a Delegate and a Senator from cessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 8, 1752; was Congress; appointed by President Lincoln as judge advocate graduated from Philadelphia College in 1768; agent of the of the Union Army with the rank of major in 1864; later Continental Congress at Martinique, and afterwards consul appointed solicitor of the court of claims; special judge advo- at St. Pierre, in the West Indies 1777-1780; Member of cate in the trial of the conspirators against the life of Presi- the Continental Congress 1786-1788; member, State house dent Lincoln; elected to the Thirty-ninth and to the three of representatives 1790-1791, serving as speaker in 1791; succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1873); chair- served in, and was president of, the State senate 1794- man, Committee on Claims (Fortieth Congress), Committee 1795; elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate on the Judiciary (Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses); and served from March 4, 1795, to March 3, 1801; was unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1872; one of the not a candidate for reelection; served as President pro tem- managers appointed by the House of Representatives in pore of the Senate during the Fourth Congress; withdrew 1862 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against West from public life and engaged in the management of his ex- H. Humphreys, United States judge for the several districts tensive estates; moved in 1801 to Bath, England, and re- of Tennessee, and in 1868 in the proceedings against An- sided with his daughter until his death in that city on Feb- drew Johnson; appointed Minister to Japan and served from ruary 7, 1804; interment in Bath Abbey, Bath, England. May 31, 1873, until July 2, 1885; died in Cadiz, Harrison Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Alberts, Robert. The County, Ohio, March 19, 1900; interment in Cadiz Cemetery. Golden Voyage: The Life and Times of William Bingham. New York: Bibliography: Beauregard, Erving E. Bingham of the Hills: Politician Houghton Mifflin, 1969. and Diplomat Extraordinary. New York: Peter Lang, 1989. BINNEY, Horace, a Representative from Pennsylvania; BINGHAM, Jonathan Brewster (son of Hiram Bing- born in Philadelphia, Pa., January 4, 1780; attended a clas- ham), a Representative from New York; born in New Haven, sical school in Bordentown, N.J., three years; was graduated Conn., April 24, 1914; attended Groton School; graduated from Harvard University in 1797; studied law; was admitted from Yale University in 1936 and from Yale Law School to the bar and commenced practice in Philadelphia in 1800; in 1939; commenced practice in New York City; admitted member of the State house of representatives in 1806 and to the New York bar in 1940; enlisted as a private in the 1807; between 1807 and 1814 prepared and published six United States Army in April 1943 and was discharged as volumes of reported decisions of the supreme court of Penn- a captain in October 1945 with War Department Staff Cita- sylvania; director of the United States Bank; elected as an tion; special assistant to Assistant Secretary of State in 1945 Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, and 1946; deputy administrator, Technical Cooperation Ad- 1833-March 3, 1835); was not a candidate for renomination ministration, 1951-1953; secretary to Governor Averell Har- in 1834; except for his appearance before the supreme court riman, 1955-1958; United States representative on United in 1844 as counsel for Philadelphia in the Girard will case, Nations Trusteeship Council with rank of Minister in 1961 he retired from his practice in the courts and confined him- and 1962 and serving as president in 1962; United States self to giving written opinions; died in Philadelphia, Pa., representative on United Nations Economic and Social August 12, 1875; interment in St. James the Less Cemetery, Council with rank of Ambassador in 1963 and 1964; United Falls of the Schuylkill (now a part of Philadelphia), Pa. States delegate to four United Nations General Assemblies; Bibliography: Carson, Hampton L. (Hampton Lawrence). A Sketch of elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth and to the eight Horace Binney. [Philadelphia]: N.p., 1907. succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1983); was not a candidate for reelection in 1982; was a resident BIRCH, William Fred, a Representative from New Jer- of the Bronx, N.Y., until his death in New York City July sey; born in Newark, N.J., August 30, 1870; moved with 3, 1986. his parents to Phillipsburg, N.J., in 1872 and to Dover, Morris County, N.J., in 1874; attended the public schools BINGHAM, Kinsley Scott, a Representative and a Sen- and was graduated from the New Jersey State Model School ator from Michigan; born in Camillus, Onondaga County, at Trenton and from Coleman’s Business College at Newark 658 Biographical Directory

in 1887; engaged in the manufacture of boilers and smoke- the eleventh judicial district of Iowa from January 1893 stacks at Dover; member of the Dover Common Council for to October 1900; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth, several years; city recorder 1904-1909; member of the State Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Congresses (March 4, 1903-March house of assembly 1910-1912; elected as a Republican to 3, 1909); resumed the practice of law in Clarion, Wright the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the County, Iowa, where he died May 26, 1917; interment in death of John H. Capstick and served from November 5, Evergreen Cemetery. 1918, to March 3, 1919; was not a candidate for renomina- tion in 1918; resumed his former manufacturing pursuits; BIRDSALL, James, a Representative from New York; also engaged in the fire-insurance and automobile businesses born in that State in 1783; studied law; was admitted to and was interested in banking; retired from business activi- the bar in 1806 and was the first lawyer to settle in Nor- ties in 1941; died in Glen Ridge, N.J., January 25, 1946; wich, Chenango County, N.Y.; surrogate of Chenango Coun- interment in Orchard Street Cemetery, Dover, N.J. ty, N.Y., in 1811; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); member of the BIRD, John, a Representative from New York; born in State assembly in 1827; one of the incorporators of the Bank Litchfield, Conn., November 22, 1768; pursued classical of Chenango; moved to Fenton, Genesee County, Mich., in studies; was graduated from Yale College in 1786; studied 1839 and later to Flint, Mich., where he died July 20, 1856; law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in interment in Glenwood Cemetery. Litchfield, Conn.; moved to Troy, N.Y., in 1793 and engaged in the practice of law; member of the State assembly 1796- BIRDSALL, Samuel, a Representative from New York; 1798; elected as a Federalist to the Sixth and Seventh Con- born in Hillsdale, Columbia County, N.Y., May 14, 1791; gresses and served from March 4, 1799, to July 25, 1801, attended the common schools; studied law in the office of when he resigned; again resumed the practice of his profes- ; was admitted to the bar in 1812 and sion; died in Troy, N.Y., on February 2, 1806; interment commenced practice in Cooperstown, N.Y.; master in chan- in Mount Ida Cemetery. cery in 1815; moved to Waterloo, N.Y., in 1817; division judge advocate with rank of colonel in 1819; counselor in BIRD, John Taylor, a Representative from New Jersey; the supreme court and solicitor in chancery in 1823; surro- born in Bloomsbury, Hunterdon County, N.J., August 16, gate of Seneca County 1827-1837; bank commissioner in 1829; attended the public schools, and a classical academy 1832; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress at Hackettstown, N.J.; studied law; was admitted to the (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); was not a candidate for bar in 1855 and commenced practice in Bloomsbury, N.J.; renomination in 1838; admitted to practice before the United moved to Clinton in 1858; prosecutor of the pleas for States Supreme Court in 1838; district attorney of Seneca Hunterdon County 1862-1867; moved to Flemington in 1865; County in 1846; postmaster of Waterloo, Seneca County, elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first and Forty-second N.Y., 1853-1863; died in Waterloo, N.Y., February 8, 1872; Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1873); was not a can- interment in Maple Grove Cemetery. didate for renomination in 1872; resumed the practice of law in Flemington, N.J.; member of the New Jersey constitu- BIRDSEYE, Victory, a Representative from New York; tional convention in 1876; moved to Trenton, N.J., in 1882; born in Cornwall, Conn., December 25, 1782; attended the vice chancellor of New Jersey 1882-1896; master in chancery public schools, and was graduated from Williams College, 1900-1909; died in Trenton, N.J., May 6, 1911; interment Williamstown, Mass., in 1804; studied law; was admitted in Riverview Cemetery. to the bar in 1807 and commenced practice in Pompey Hill, Onondaga County, N.Y.; elected as a Republican to the Four- BIRD, Richard Ely, a Representative from Kansas; born teenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); was not in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 4, 1878; moved with his par- a candidate for renomination in 1816; postmaster of Pompey ents to Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kans., in 1887; attended Hill 1817-1838; district attorney of Onondaga County 1818- the public schools and was graduated from Wichita High 1833; master of chancery of Onondaga County 1818-1822; School in 1898; studied law; was admitted to the bar in delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1821; 1901 and commenced practice in Wichita; judge of the dis- member of the State assembly 1823 and 1838-1840; served trict court of the eighteenth judicial district of Kansas 1916- in the State senate in 1827; unsuccessful candidate for elec- 1921; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress tion in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress; elected as a (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate for Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; resumed 3, 1843); was not a candidate for renomination in 1842; the practice of law; United States referee in bankruptcy, resumed the practice of law; died in Pompey, Onondaga Wichita, Kans., 1925-1927; retired from public life in 1937 and moved to Long Beach, Calif., where he died January County, N.Y., September 16, 1853; interment in Pompey 10, 1955; interment in Maplegrove Cemetery, Wichita, Kans. Hill Cemetery. BIRDSALL, Ausburn, a Representative from New York; BISBEE, Horatio, Jr., a Representative from Florida; born in Otego, Otsego County, N.Y., November 13, 1814; born in Canton, Oxford County, Maine, May 1, 1839; at- lawyer, private practice; district attorney of Broome County, tended the public schools, and was graduated from Tufts N.Y.; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress College, Medford, Mass., in 1863; during the Civil War (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); supply supervisor, United served as a private for three months in the Fifth Regiment, States Navy; died on July 10, 1903, in New York, N.Y.; Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry; mustered out the middle interment in Spring Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, N.Y.; of July 1861; appointed captain in the Ninth Regiment, reinterment in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York, N.Y., 1910. Maine Volunteer Infantry, in September 1861; promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and afterwards to the rank BIRDSALL, Benjamin Pixley, a Representative from of colonel; honorably mustered out of the service with the Iowa; born in Weyauwega, Waupaca County, Wis., October latter rank in March 1863; moved to Illinois in 1863; studied 26, 1858; attended the common schools of Iowa and Iowa law; was admitted to the bar in Chicago in 1864 and com- State University, Iowa City; studied law; was admitted to menced practice in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1865; United States the bar in 1878 and practiced; served as district judge of attorney for the northern district of Florida 1869-1873 and Biographies 659

for a short period filled the office of attorney general of 1843; attended Unadilla Academy, Cooperstown Seminary, the State; presented credentials as a Republican Member- and Walton Academy, New York; taught school several elect to the Forty-fifth Congress and served from March years; during the Civil War enlisted as a private in Com- 4, 1877, to February 20, 1879, when he was succeeded by pany C, Forty-third Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, Jesse J. Finley, who contested the election; successfully con- in 1861 and was discharged in December 1862 because of tested the election of Noble A. Hull to the Forty-sixth Con- a wound which necessitated the amputation of his right gress and served from January 22, 1881, to March 3, 1881; arm; entered the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in Sep- successfully contested the election of Jesse J. Finley to the tember 1868 where he remained until December 1872; stud- Forty-seventh Congress and served from June 1, 1882, to ied law; was admitted to the bar in Ann Arbor in May March 3, 1883; reelected to the Forty-eighth Congress 1875 and commenced practice in Ludington, Mason County, (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); unsuccessful candidate for Mich.; elected prosecuting attorney of Mason County in reelection in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress; resumed the 1876, 1878, and 1884; member of the State house of rep- practice of his profession; died in Dixfield, Oxford County, resentatives in 1882 and 1892; elected as a Republican to Maine, March 27, 1916; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. the Fifty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses Bibliography: Klingman, Peter D. ‘‘Inside the Ring: Bisbee-Lee Cor- (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1907); chairman, Committee on respondence, February-April 1880.’’ Florida Historical Quarterly 57 (Octo- Ventilation and Acoustics (Fifty-seventh through Fifty-ninth ber 1978): 187-204. Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in BISHOP, Cecil William (Runt), a Representative from 1906; resumed the practice of law in Ludington, Mich.; Illinois; born on a farm near West Vienna, Johnson County, served as a member of the Michigan constitutional conven- Ill., June 29, 1890; attended the public schools, and Union tion in 1907; was appointed a member of the Spanish Treaty Academy, Anna, Ill.; learned the tailoring trade; worked as Claims Commission in December 1907 and served until the coal miner, telephone linesman, professional football and work of the commission was completed; moved to Hollister, baseball player and manager; engaged in the cleaning-tai- Calif., in 1910 and engaged in fruit growing; died at Pacific loring business 1910-1922; city clerk of Carterville, Ill., 1915- Grove, Monterey County, Calif., March 4, 1920; interment 1918; postmaster at Carterville, Ill., 1923-1933; elected as in the El Carmelo Cemetery. a Republican to the Seventy-seventh and to the six suc- ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1955); BISHOP, Sanford Dixon, Jr., a Representative from chairman, Special Committee on Campaign Expenditures Georgia; born in Mobile, Mobile County, Ala., February 4, (Eighty-third Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelec- 1947; attended public schools in Mobile, Ala.; B.A., More- tion in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress; congressional house College, Atlanta, Ga., 1968, J.D., Emory University liaison assistant, Post Office Department, Washington, D.C., School of Law, Atlanta, Ga., 1971; lawyer, private practice; 1955-1957; superintendent of Division of Industrial Planning United States Army, 1969-1971; member of the Georgia and Development, State of Illinois, in 1957 and 1958; De- state house of representatives, 1977-1991; member of the partment of Labor conciliator for State of Illinois, 1958-1960; Georgia state senate, 1991-1993; elected as a Democrat to retired; died in Marion, Ill., September 21, 1971; interment the One Hundred Third and to the five succeeding Con- in Oakwood Cemetery, Carterville, Ill. gresses (January 3, 1993-present). BISHOP, James, a Representative from New Jersey; BISHOP, Timothy H., a Representative from New York; born in New Brunswick, N.J., May 11, 1816; attended born in Southampton, Suffolk County, N.Y., June 1, 1950; Spaulding School and Rutgers College Preparatory School, graduated from Southampton High School, Southampton, New Brunswick, N.J.; engaged in mercantile pursuits in N.Y., 1968; A.B., Holy Cross College, Worcester, N.Y., 1972; New Brunswick; member of the State house of assembly M.A., Long Island University, Long Island, N.Y., 1981; ad- in 1849 and 1850; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-fourth ministrator, Southampton College, Southampton, N.Y., 1986- Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); unsuccessful can- 2002; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Eighth didate for reelection in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress; Congress (January 3, 2003-present). prominent in the rubber trade in New York City; chief of the bureau of labor statistics of New Jersey 1878-1893 and BISHOP, William Darius, a Representative from Con- a resident of Trenton; died at Kemble Hall, near Morristown, necticut; born in Bloomfield, Essex County, N.J., September Morris County, N.J., May 10, 1895; interment in Elmwood 14, 1827; pursued preparatory studies; was graduated from Cemetery, New Brunswick, Middlesex County, N.J. Yale College in 1849; studied law; was admitted to the bar but did not practice, instead carrying on his father’s railroad BISHOP, Phanuel, a Representative from Massachu- enterprises which involved the construction of the setts; born in Rehoboth, Mass., September 3, 1739; attended Naugatuck and the New York and New Haven Railroads the common schools; was an innkeeper; served in the State in Connecticut and the railroad between Saratoga Springs senate 1787-1791; member of the State house of representa- and Whitehall in New York; founder of the Eastern Railroad tives in 1792, 1793, 1797, and 1798; elected as a Republican Association and its president until the time of his death; to the Sixth through Ninth Congresses (March 4, 1799- elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March March 3, 1807); died in Rehoboth, Mass., January 6, 1812; 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); chairman, Committee on Manufac- interment in Old Cemetery, Rumford, East Providence, R.I. tures (Thirty-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for re- BISHOP, Robert (Rob), a Representative from Utah; election in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress; commissioner born in Kaysville, Utah, on July 13, 1951; B.A., University of patents from May 23, 1859, to January 1860; vice presi- of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1974; teacher; private advo- dent and president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford cate; member of the Utah state house of representatives, Railroad Co.; member of the State house of representatives 1979-1994, speaker, 1992-1994; elected as a Republican to in 1866 and 1871; served in the State senate in 1877 and the One Hundred Eighth Congress (January 3, 2003- 1878; died in Bridgeport, Conn., Feb. 4, 1904; interment present). in Mountain Grove Cemetery. BISHOP, Roswell Peter, a Representative from Michi- BISSELL, William Harrison, a Representative from Illi- gan; born in Sidney, Delaware County, N.Y., January 6, nois; born in Hartwick, Otsego County, N.Y., on April 25, 660 Biographical Directory

1811; attended the public schools, and was graduated from the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, the Philadelphia Medical College in 1835; moved to Monroe 1929); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1928; ap- County, Ill., in 1837; taught school and practiced medicine pointed by President Hoover to the United States Board until 1840; member of the State house of representatives of Tax Appeals (now the United States Tax Court) on No- 1840-1842; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- vember 5, 1929 to fill an unexpired term; reappointed in menced practice in Belleville, St. Clair County, Ill.; pros- 1932 and again in 1944 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt ecuting attorney of St. Clair County in 1844; served in the for a term of twelve years and served until his retirement Mexican War as colonel of the Second Regiment, Illinois November 30, 1953; recalled December 1, 1953, to perform Volunteer Infantry; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty- further judicial service with the United States Tax Court first and Thirty-second Congresses and as an Independent until March 31, 1966; resided in Washington, D.C., until Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1849- his death there on May 22, 1975; interment in Cedar Hill March 3, 1855); chairman, Committee on Military Affairs Cemetery, Suitland, Md. (Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses); was not a can- didate for renomination in 1854; elected BLACK, Frank Swett, a Representative from New York; in 1856 and served from January 12, 1857, until his death; born near Limington, York County, Maine, March 8, 1853; died in Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill., March 18, 1860; attended the district schools, and was graduated from Leb- interment in Oak Ridge Cemetery. anon Academy, West Lebanon, Maine, in 1871; taught school for several years; was graduated from Dartmouth College, BIXLER, Harris Jacob, a Representative from Pennsyl- Hanover, N.H., in 1875; editor of the Johnstown (N.Y.) Jour- vania; born in New Buffalo, Perry County, Pa., September nal; moved to Troy, N.Y., and engaged in newspaper work; 16, 1870; attended the public schools and Lock Haven State studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1879 and com- Normal School; taught school in the country districts in menced practice in Troy; elected as a Republican to the Perry and Clinton Counties 1878-1892; attended Potts Busi- Fifty-fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1895, to ness College, Williamsport, Pa.; moved to Johnsonburg, Elk January 7, 1897, when he resigned to become Governor; County, Pa., in 1892 and worked as a shipping clerk; later 1897-1899; resumed the practice of was engaged in banking and manufacturing; director of the law in New York City; died in Troy, N.Y., March 22, 1913; Johnsonburg National Bank; served as president of the city the remains were cremated and placed in a sepulcher on council 1900-1904 and as president of the board of education his farm near Freedom, Carroll County, N.H. 1904-1910; mayor of Johnsonburg 1908-1912; sheriff of Elk County, Pa., 1916-1920; chairman of the Republican county BLACK, George Robison (son of Edward Junius Black), committee 1916-1925; treasurer of Elk County 1920-1922; a Representative from Georgia; born on his father’s planta- elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, tion near Jacksonboro, Screven County, Ga., March 24, 1835; and Sixty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1927); attended the common schools, the University of Georgia at unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1926; engaged Athens, and the University of South Carolina at Columbia; in business as a freight contractor and also interested in studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and com- agricultural pursuits; died in Johnsonburg, Pa., on March menced practice in Savannah, Ga.; during the Civil War 29, 1941; interment in Duncannon Cemetery, Duncannon, entered the Confederate service as first lieutenant of the Pa. Phoenix Riflemen and afterwards was promoted to lieuten- ant colonel of the Sixty-third Georgia Regiment; delegate BLACK, Edward Junius (father of George Robison to the State constitutional convention in 1865; delegate to Black), a Representative from Georgia; born in Beaufort, the Democratic National Convention in 1872; member of S.C., October 30, 1806; attended the common schools and the State senate 1874-1877; vice president of the Georgia was graduated from Richmond Academy, Augusta, Ga.; stud- State Agricultural Society; elected as a Democrat to the ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1827 and commenced Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); was practice in Augusta, Ga.; member of the State house of an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1882 to the representatives 1829-1831; moved to Screven County, Ga., Forty-eighth Congress; died in Sylvania, Screven County, in 1832; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress Ga., November 3, 1886; interment in Sylvania Cemetery. (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); unsuccessful Democratic candidate for reelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Con- BLACK, Henry, a Representative from Pennsylvania; gress; subsequently elected as a Democrat to the Twenty- born near the borough of Somerset, Somerset County, Pa., seventh Congress to fill in part the vacancies caused by February 25, 1783; attended the common schools; engaged the resignations of Julius C. Alford, William C. Dawson, in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of rep- and Eugenius A. Nisbet; reelected to the Twenty-eighth Con- resentatives 1816-1818; justice of the peace; associate judge gress and served from January 3, 1842, to March 3, 1845; of Somerset County, Pa., 1820-1840; elected as a Whig to unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1844 to the Twenty- the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in the death of Charles Ogle and served from June 28, 1841, Millettville, Barnwell District, S.C., September 1, 1846; in- until his death in Somerset, Pa., on November 28, 1841; terment in the family burying ground near Millettville, interment in the family cemetery, Stony Creek Township, Allendale County, S.C. Somerset County, Pa. BLACK, Eugene, a Representative from Texas; born near BLACK, Hugo Lafayette, a Senator from Alabama; born Blossom, Lamar County, Tex., July 2, 1879; attended the near Ashland, Clay County, Ala., February 27, 1886; at- public schools of Blossom; taught school in Lamar County tended the public schools and Ashland College, Ashland, 1898-1900; employed in the post office at Blossom; was grad- Ala.; graduated from the law department of the University uated from the law department of Cumberland University, of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1906; admitted to the Alabama Lebanon, Tenn., in 1905; was admitted to the bar the same bar the same year and commenced practice in Ashland, Ala.; year and commenced practice in Clarksville, Red River moved to Birmingham, Ala., in 1907 and continued the prac- County, Tex.; was also engaged in the wholesale grocery tice of law; during the First World War served as a captain business; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth and to of the Eighty-first Field Artillery and as company regimental Biographies 661

adjutant in the Nineteenth Artillery Brigade 1917-1918; po- not a candidate for renomination in 1896; resumed the prac- lice court judge in Birmingham, Ala.; prosecuting attorney tice of law in Augusta, Ga., until his death there on October of Jefferson County, Ala.; elected as a Democrat to the 1, 1928; interment in Magnolia Cemetery. United States Senate in 1926; reelected in 1932 and served from March 4, 1927, until his resignation on August 19, BLACK, John, a Senator from Mississippi; born in Mas- 1937, having been appointed by President Franklin D. Roo- sachusetts, but date of birth is unknown; engaged in teach- sevelt as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme ing; studied law; commenced practice in Louisiana; moved Court; chairman, Committee on Education and Labor (Sev- to Mississippi; elected judge of the fourth circuit and su- enty-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses); was confirmed by preme court 1826-1832; appointed as a Jacksonian to the the Senate on August 17, 1937, took his seat as an Associate United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the res- Justice on October 4, 1937 and served until his resignation ignation of Powhatan Ellis and served from November 12, on September 17, 1971, just days before his death in Be- 1832, to March 3, 1833; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian (later thesda, Md., on September 25, 1971; interment in Arlington Whig) to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. the term commencing March 4, 1833, and served from No- Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- vember 22, 1833, to January 22, 1838, when he resigned; ography; Ball, Howard. Hugo L. Black: Cold Steel Warrior. New York: Ox- chairman, Committee on Private Lands (Twenty-third and ford University Press, 1996; Newman, Roger K. . New York: Twenty-fourth Congresses); resumed the practice of law in Pantheon Books, 1994. Winchester, Va., and died there August 29, 1854; interment in Mount Hebron Cemetery. BLACK, James, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Newport, Perry County, Pa., March 6, 1793; at- BLACK, John Charles, a Representative from Illinois; tended the common schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits; born in Lexington, Holmes County, Miss., January 27, 1839; member of the State house of representatives in 1830 and moved to Danville, Vermilion County, Ill., in 1847; attended 1831; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress the common schools and Wabash College, Crawfordsville, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jesse Miller Ind., but was not graduated until after the close of the and served from December 5, 1836, to March 3, 1837; asso- Civil War; served in the Union Army from April 14, 1861, ciate judge of Perry County in 1842 and 1843; elected as to August 15, 1865; entered as a private, and was succes- a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Con- sively sergeant major, major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel; gresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847); State collector of brevetted brigadier general for service in the storming of tolls on the Juniata Canal; died in New Bloomfield, Perry Fort Blakeley on April 9, 1865; received the Congressional County, Pa., on June 21, 1872; interment in New Bloomfield Medal; studied law in Chicago, Ill.; was admitted to the Cemetery. bar in 1867 and commenced practice in Danville, Ill.; ap- pointed United States Commissioner of Pensions by Presi- BLACK, James Augustus, a Representative from South dent Cleveland and served from March 17, 1885, to March Carolina; born on his father’s plantation in Ninety Six Dis- 27, 1889; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress trict, near Abbeville, S.C., in 1793; attended the common and served from March 4, 1893, to January 12, 1895, when schools on his father’s plantation; during the War of 1812 he resigned; United States attorney for the northern district was appointed a second lieutenant in the Eighth Infantry of Illinois 1895-1899; department commander of the Loyal March 12, 1812; promoted to first lieutenant December 2, Legion of Illinois 1895-1897; department commander of the 1813, and was honorably discharged June 15, 1815; engaged Illinois department, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1898; in the mining of iron ore on what is now the present site commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic of Cherokee Falls, S.C.; moved to Georgia and settled in in 1903 and 1904; member of the United States Civil Service Savannah; engaged in cotton dealing; served as tax collector Commission 1904-1913 and served as its president; resigned of Chatham County, Ga.; returned to South Carolina and and returned to Chicago, Ill., where he died August 17, settled in Columbia; cashier of the State (branch) bank; 1915; interment in Spring Hill Cemetery, Danville, Ill. member of South Carolina house of representatives, 1826- 1828 and 1832-1835; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty- BLACK, Loring Milton, Jr., a Representative from New eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses and served York; born in New York City, May 17, 1886; attended the from March 4, 1843, until his death in Washington, D.C., public schools and was graduated from Fordham University, on April 3, 1848; chairman, Committee on the Militia (Twen- New York City, in 1907; studied law at Columbia University, ty-ninth Congress); interment in the graveyard of the First New York City; was admitted to the bar in 1909 and com- Presbyterian Church, Columbia, S.C. menced practice in New York City; member of the State senate in 1911 and 1912; resumed the practice of his profes- BLACK, James Conquest Cross, a Representative from sion in New York City; again a member of the State senate Georgia; born in Stamping Ground, Scott County, Ky., May in 1919 and 1920; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth 9, 1842; attended the common schools and the high school and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-Janu- at Newcastle, Ky., and was graduated from Georgetown Col- ary 3, 1935); chairman, Committee on Claims (Seventy-sec- lege, Kentucky, in 1862; during the Civil War enlisted as ond and Seventy-third Congresses); was not a candidate for a private in Company A, Ninth Kentucky Cavalry, in the renomination in 1934; resumed the practice of law in New Confederate Army; moved to Augusta, Ga., in 1865; studied York City and Washington, D.C.; died in Washington, D.C., law; was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced prac- May 21, 1956; interment in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. tice in Augusta, Ga.; member of the State house of rep- resentatives 1873-1877; served as president of the Augusta BLACKBURN, Benjamin Bentley, a Representative Orphan Asylum 1879-1886; member of the city council; from Georgia; born in Atlanta, Fulton County, Ga., February served as city attorney; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty- 14, 1927; attended the public schools in Atlanta, Ga.; grad- third and Fifty-fourth Congresses and served from March uated from the University of North Carolina in 1947, and 4, 1893, to March 4, 1895, when he resigned; subsequently from Emory University School of Law in 1954; during the elected to fill the vacancy caused by his own resignation Second World War served in the United States Navy, 1944- and served from October 2, 1895, to March 3, 1897; was 1946; during the Korean conflict again served in the United 662 Biographical Directory

States Navy, 1950-1952; was retired as a lieutenant com- BLACKBURN, Robert E. Lee, a Representative from mander in the United States Naval Reserve; served in the Kentucky; born on a farm near Furnace, Estill County, Ky., State attorney general’s office, 1955-1957; admitted to the April 9, 1870; as an infant moved with his parents to Stan- bar in 1954 and commenced private practice in Atlanta, ton, Powell County, Ky.; attended the county schools, and Ga., after service with the State attorney general; elected Elliott Academy at Kirksville, Madison County, Ky.; trav- as a Republican to the Ninetieth and to the three succeeding eling salesman for an oil company 1891-1900; during the Congresses (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1975); was an un- Spanish-American War served as a second lieutenant in successful candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety- Company C, Fourth Infantry, United States Volunteers; en- fourth Congress; is a resident of Atlanta, Ga. gaged in general merchandising at Stanton, Ky., and in agricultural pursuits 1900-1907; member of the State house BLACKBURN, Edmond Spencer, a Representative from of representatives in 1904 and 1905; served as clerk of the North Carolina; born near Boone, Watauga County, N.C., court of Powell County 1906 to 1910; was engaged in the September 22, 1868; attended the common schools and acad- insurance and stock brokerage business 1910-1919; moved emies of his native State; studied law; was admitted to to Lexington, Ky., in 1919 and continued the insurance and the bar in 1890 and commenced practice in Jefferson, Ashe brokerage business; also engaged in the oil-development County, N.C.; reading clerk of the State senate in 1894 business; appointed a member of the State board of agri- and 1895; member of the State house of representatives culture in 1926 and served until 1928; elected as a Repub- in 1896 and 1897, serving as speaker pro tempore the latter lican to the Seventy-first Congress (March 4, 1929-March year; assistant United States attorney in 1898; elected as 3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1901- the Seventy-second Congress and for election in 1932 to March 3, 1903); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1902 the Seventy-third Congress; resumed his former activities to the Fifty-eighth Congress; elected to the Fifty-ninth Con- in the oil business and resided in Lexington, Ky., until his gress (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1907); was not a candidate death there on September 20, 1935; interment in Stanton for renomination in 1906; resumed the practice of law in Cemetery, Stanton, Ky. Greensboro, N.C.; died in Elizabethton, Carter County, Tenn., March 10, 1912; interment in Old Hopewel Cemetery, BLACKBURN, William Jasper, a Representative from near Boone, N.C. Louisiana; born on the Fourche de Mau, Randolph County, Ark., on July 24, 1820; received his early education from BLACKBURN, Stiles, a Representative his mother; moved to Batesville in 1839 and learned the and a Senator from Kentucky; born near Spring Station, printer’s trade; moved to Little Rock in 1845, to Fort Smith Woodford County, Ky., October 1, 1838; attended Sayres in 1846, and to Minden, La., in 1849, where he established Institute, Frankfort, Ky., and graduated from Centre Col- the Minden Herald; moved to Homer, La., and established lege, Danville, Ky., in 1857; studied law in Lexington, Ky.; the Homer Iliad in 1859; member of the State constitutional admitted to the bar in 1858 and practiced in Chicago, Ill., convention in 1867; county judge of Claiborne Parish, La., until 1860, when he returned to Woodford County, Ky.; en- for four years; upon the readmission of the State of Lou- tered the Confederate Army as a private in 1861 and was isiana to representation was elected as a Republican to the promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel before the close Fortieth Congress and served from July 18, 1868, to March of the Civil War; settled in Arkansas in 1865, where he 3, 1869; was not a candidate for renomination in 1868; mem- was engaged as lawyer and planter in Desha County until ber of the State senate 1874-1878; returned to Little Rock, 1868, when he returned to Kentucky and opened law offices Ark., in 1880; published the Arkansas Republican from 1881 in Versailles; member, State house of representatives 1871- to 1884 and the Free South from 1885 to 1892; died in 1875; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and to the Little Rock, Ark., November 10, 1899; interment in Mount four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1885); Holly Cemetery. chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Forty- fifth Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the Depart- BLACKLEDGE, William (father of William Salter ment of War (Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses); elected Blackledge), a Representative from North Carolina; born in as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1885; reelected Craven County, N.C., birth date unknown; member of the in 1890, and served from March 4, 1885, to March 3, 1897; State house of commons, 1797-1799 and again in 1809; elect- unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896; chairman, ed as a Republican to the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Con- Committee on Rules (Fifty-third Congress); again elected to gresses (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1809); one of the managers the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1901, appointed by the House of Representatives in 1804 to con- to March 3, 1907; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in duct the impeachment proceedings against John Pickering, 1907; Democratic caucus chairman 1906-1907; appointed judge of the United States District Court for New Hamp- Governor of the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, by Presi- shire; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1808 to the dent Theodore Roosevelt on April 1, 1907; resigned in No- Eleventh Congress; elected to the Twelfth Congress (March vember 1909 and returned to his estate in Woodford County, 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); unsuccessful candidate for reelection Ky.; died in Washington, D.C., September 12, 1918; inter- in 1812 to the Thirteenth Congress; died at Spring Hill, ment in the State Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky. Craven County, N.C., October 19, 1828. Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Schlup, Leonard. ‘‘Jo- seph Blackburn of Kentucky and the Panama Question.’’ Filson Club BLACKLEDGE, William Salter (son of William Quarterly 51 (October 1977): 350-62. Blackledge), a Representative from North Carolina; born in Pitt County, N.C., in 1793; moved to Craven County, N.C., BLACKBURN, Marsha, a Representative from Ten- and settled in New Bern; graduated from the University nessee; born in Laurel, Miss., June 6, 1952; graduated from of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1813; member of the Northeast Jones High School, Laurel, Miss.; B.S. Mississippi State house of commons in 1820; elected to the Sixteenth State University, Mississippi State, Miss., 1973; business Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jesse owner; private advocate; unsuccessful candidate for the One Slocumb; reelected to the Seventeenth Congress and served Hundred Third Congress in 1992; member of the Tennessee from February 7, 1821, until March 3, 1823; died in New state senate, 1998-2002; elected as a Republican to the One Bern, Craven County, N.C., March 21, 1857; interment in Hundred Eighth Congress (January 3, 2003-present). New Bern Cemetery. Biographies 663

BLACKMAR, Esbon, a Representative from New York; for mayor of Philadelphia, Pa., in 1979; unsuccessful can- born in Freehold, Greene County, N.Y., June 19, 1805; at- didate for nomination for mayor of Philadelphia, Pa., in tended the district schools and was graduated from the high 1991; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Second school; engaged in the general merchandise business; mem- Congress by special election to fill the vacancy caused by ber of the State senate in 1838 and 1841; elected as a the resignation of United States Representative William H. Whig to the Thirtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused Gray, III, and reelected to the succeeding Congress (Novem- by the death of John M. Holley and served from December ber 5, 1991-January 3, 1995); unsuccessful candidate for 4, 1848, to March 3, 1849; resumed his former business renomination to the One Hundred Fourth Congress in 1994; activities; died in Newark, Wayne County, N.Y., on Novem- private advocate; died on January 24, 2003, in Philadelphia, ber 19, 1857; interment in Willow Avenue Cemetery. Pa.; internment in Mount Lawn Cemetery, Yeardon, Pa. BLACKMON, Fred Leonard, a Representative from Ala- BLAGOJEVICH, Rod R., a Representative from Illinois; bama; born at Lime Branch, Polk County, Ga., September born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., December 10, 1956; at- 15, 1873; moved with his parents to Calhoun County, Ala., tended Foreman High School, Chicago, Ill.; B.A., North- in 1883; attended the public schools in Dearmanville and western University, Evanston, Ill., 1979; J.D., Pepperdine Choccolocco, the State normal college at Jacksonville, Ala., University, Malibu, Calif., 1983; attorney, private practice; Douglasville (Ga.) College, and Mountain City Business Col- Assistant State’s Attorney, Cook County, Ill., 1986-1988; lege, Chattanooga, Tenn.; was graduated from the law de- member of the Illinois state house of representatives, 1993- partment of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1996; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Fifth and 1894; was admitted to the bar in the same year and com- to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1997-January menced practice in Anniston, Calhoun County, Ala.; city at- 3, 2003); not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred torney for Anniston 1898-1902; member of the State senate Eighth Congress in 2002.; Governor of Illinois, 2003 to 1900-1910; chairman of the congressional committee for the present. fourth Alabama district from 1906 until 1910, when he re- signed; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and to BLAINE, James Gillespie, a Representative and a Sen- the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, ator from Maine; born in West Brownsville, Washington 1911, until his death; had also been reelected to the Sixty- County, Pa., January 31, 1830; graduated from Washington seventh Congress; died in Bartow, Polk County, Fla., on College, Washington, Pa., in 1847; taught at the Western February 8, 1921; interment in the Hillside Cemetery, An- Military Institute, Blue Lick Springs, Ky.; returned to Penn- niston, Ala. sylvania; studied law; taught at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind in Philadelphia 1852-1854; moved in 1854 to BLACKNEY, William Wallace, a Representative from Maine, where he edited the Portland Advertiser and the Michigan; born in Clio, Genesee County, Mich., August 28, Kennebec Journal; member, State house of representatives 1876; attended the public schools, Olivet College, Olivet, 1859-1862, serving the last two years as speaker; elected Mich., and Ferris School, Big Rapids, Mich.; moved to Flint, as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and to the six suc- Mich., in 1904; served as county clerk of Genesee County ceeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1863, to July 1905-1912; was graduated from the law department of the 10, 1876, when he resigned; Speaker of the House of Rep- University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1912; was admitted resentatives (Forty-first through Forty-third Congresses); to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Flint, chairman, Committee on Rules (Forty-third through Forty- Mich.; served as assistant prosecuting attorney of Genesee fifth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for nomination for County 1913-1917; member of the Flint School Board 1924- President on the Republican ticket in 1876 and 1880; ap- 1934; member of the Republican State central committee pointed and subsequently elected as a Republican to the 1925-1930; instructor in the General Motors Co. technical United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the res- night school for sixteen years; elected as a Republican to ignation of Lot M. Morrill; reelected and served from July the Seventy-fourth Congress (January 3, 1935-January 3, 10, 1876, to March 5, 1881, when he resigned to become 1937); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Secretary of State; chairman, Committee on Civil Service Seventy-fifth Congress; elected to the Seventy-sixth and to and Retrenchment (Forty-fifth Congress), Committee on the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, Rules (Forty-fifth Congress); Secretary of State in the Cabi- 1953); was not a candidate for renomination in 1952; retired nets of Presidents James Garfield and Chester Arthur, from to Flint, Mich., until his death there March 14, 1963; inter- March 5 to December 12, 1881; unsuccessful Republican can- ment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Clio, Mich. didate for President of the United States in 1884; Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Benjamin Harrison BLACKWELL, Julius W., a Representative from Ten- 1889-1892, when he resigned; aided in organizing and was nessee; born in Virginia in 1797c; attended the public the first president of the Pan American Congress; died in schools; moved to Tennessee and settled in Athens, McMinn Washington, D.C., January 27, 1893; interment in Oak Hill County; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress Cemetery; reinterment at the request of the State of Maine (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); unsuccessful candidate for in the Blaine Memorial Park, Augusta, Maine, in June 1920. reelection to the Twenty-seventh Congress in 1840; elected Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Blaine, James G. to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield. 2 vols. Norwich, 1845); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty- Conn.: Henry Bill Publishing Co. 1884-1886; Healy, David. James G. ninth Congress in 1844; death date unknown. Blaine and Latin America. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. BLACKWELL, Lucien Edward, a Representative from BLAINE, John James, a Senator from Wisconsin; born Pennsylvania; born in Whitsett, Fayette County, Pa., August on a farm in Wingville Township, Grant County, Wis., May 1, 1931; attended public schools; United States Army, 1953- 4, 1875; attended the common schools; was graduated from 1954; president, Local 1332, International Longshoremen’s the law department of Valparaiso (Ind.) University in 1896; Association, 1973-1991; member of the Pennsylvania state was admitted to the bar in 1896 and commenced practice house of representatives, 1973-1975; member of the Philadel- in Montford; moved to Boscobel in 1897 and continued the phia, Pa., city council, 1974-1991; unsuccessful candidate practice of law; mayor of Boscobel 1901-1904, 1906-1907; 664 Biographical Directory

member of the Grant County Board of Supervisors 1901- publican to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 1904; member, State senate 1909-1913; unsuccessful can- 3, 1859); successfully contested the election of John R. Bar- didate for Governor in 1914; attorney general of the State ret to the Thirty-sixth Congress and served from June 8 of Wisconsin 1919-1921; Governor of Wisconsin 1921-1927; to June 25, 1860, when he resigned; unsuccessful candidate elected as a Republican to the United States Senate for for reelection to the Thirty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy the term beginning March 4, 1927, and served from March caused by his own resignation; elected to the Thirty-seventh 4, 1927, to March 3, 1933; unsuccessful candidate for re- Congress and served from March 4, 1861, until his resigna- nomination in 1932; resumed the practice of law at Boscobel; tion in July 1862 to become a colonel in the Union Army; appointed a director of the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Thirty-seventh tion in 1933 and served until his death in Boscobel, Wis., Congress); presented credentials as a Member-elect to the April 16, 1934; interment in Hillside Cemetery. Thirty-eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1863, to Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- June 10, 1864, when he was succeeded by Samuel Knox, ography; O’Brien, Patrick. ‘Senator John J. Blaine: An Independent Pro- who contested the election; unsuccessful Democratic can- gressive During ‘Normalcy’.’ Wisconsin Magazine of History 60 (Autumn didate for Vice President of the United States in 1868; mem- 1976): 25-41. ber, State house of representatives 1870; elected as a Demo- BLAIR, Austin, a Representative from Michigan; born crat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused in Caroline, Tompkins County, N.Y., February 8, 1818; at- by the resignation of Charles D. Drake and served from tended the common schools, Cazenovia Seminary, and Ham- January 20, 1871, to March 3, 1873; was not a candidate ilton College, Clinton, N.Y.; was graduated from Union Col- for reelection; State insurance commissioner in 1874; died lege, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1837; studied law in Oswego; in St. Louis, Mo., July 8, 1875; interment in Bellefontaine was admitted to the bar in Tioga County, N.Y., in 1841; Cemetery. moved to Michigan and settled in Eaton Rapids, where he Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Smith, William E. The commenced the practice of his profession in 1842; county Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, clerk of Eaton County; moved to Jackson, Mich., in 1844; 1933; Wurthman, Leonard B., Jr. ‘‘Frank Blair: Lincoln’s Congressional elected to the State house of representatives in 1845; dele- Spokesman.’’ Missouri Historical Review 64 (April 1970): 263-88. gate to the Free-Soil National Convention at Buffalo, N.Y., BLAIR, Henry William, a Representative and a Senator in 1848; elected prosecuting attorney of Jackson County in from New Hampshire; born in Campton, Grafton County, 1852; elected to the State senate in 1854; was present at N.H., December 6, 1834; attended the common schools and the organization of the Republican Party in Jackson, Mich., private academies; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1859 on July 6, 1854, and was a member of the platform com- and commenced practice in Plymouth, N.H.; appointed pros- mittee; delegate to the Republican National Convention at ecuting attorney for Grafton County 1860; during the Civil Chicago in 1860; Governor of Michigan from January 1, War served in the Union Army as lieutenant colonel of the 1861, to January 1, 1865; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry; Fortieth, Forty-first, and Forty-second Congresses (March member, State house of representatives 1866; member, State 4, 1867-March 3, 1873); chairman, Committee on Private senate 1867-1868; elected as a Republican to the Forty- Land Claims (Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses); was fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, not a candidate for renomination in 1872, but was an unsuc- 1879); was not a candidate for renomination in 1878; elected cessful Liberal Republican candidate for Governor; resumed as a Republican to the United States Senate on June 17, the practice of law in Jackson, Mich., and died there August 1879, for the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1885, 6, 1894; interment in Mount Evergreen Cemetery. and served from June 20, 1879, to March 3, 1885; the State Bibliography: Crofts, Daniel W. ‘‘The Blair Bill and the Elections Bill: legislature not being in session, he was appointed on March The Congressional Aftermath to Reconstruction.’’ Ph.D. diss., Yale Univer- sity, 1968; Harris, Robert C. ‘‘ of Michigan: A Political Biog- 5, 1885, and elected on June 17, 1885, to fill the vacancy raphy.’’ Ph.D. diss., Michigan State University, 1969. in the term beginning March 4, 1885, and served from March 10, 1885, to March 3, 1891; unsuccessful candidate BLAIR, Bernard, a Representative from New York; born for renomination in 1891; chairman, Committee on Edu- in Williamstown, Mass., May 24, 1801; attended the public cation and Labor (Forty-seventh through Fifty-first Con- schools and pursued preparatory studies; was graduated gresses); declined an appointment as judge of the district from Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1825; moved court for the district of New Hampshire tendered by Presi- to Salem, Washington County, N.Y., in 1825; studied law; dent Benjamin Harrison in 1891; was appointed Envoy Ex- was admitted to the bar in 1828 and commenced practice traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to China March in Salem, subsequently being admitted as counselor and 6, 1891; he was objected to by the Chinese Government solicitor in chancery; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sev- as being persona non grata; subsequently tendered his res- enth Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); discontinued ignation which was accepted October 6, 1891; elected as the practice of his profession and engaged in business pur- a Republican to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893- suits; died in Salem, Washington County, N.Y., May 7, 1880; March 3, 1895); was not a candidate for reelection in 1894; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C., until his death on March 14, 1920; interment in Campton Ceme- BLAIR, Francis Preston, Jr., a Representative and a tery, Campton, N.H. Senator from Missouri; born in Lexington, Ky., on February Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- 19, 1821; as a child moved with his father to Washington, ography; Crofts, Daniel W. ‘‘The Black Response to the Blair Education D.C.; attended private schools and the University of North Bill.’’ Journal of Southern History 37 (February 1971): 41-65. Carolina at Chapel Hill; graduated from Princeton College in 1841; studied law at Transylvania University, Lexington, BLAIR, Jacob Beeson, a Representative from Virginia Ky.; admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced practice and from West Virginia; born in Parkersburg, Wood County, in St. Louis in 1843; enlisted as a private during the Mexi- Va. (now W.Va.), April 11, 1821; studied law; was admitted can War; served as attorney general of the Territory of New to the bar in 1844; lawyer, private practice; prosecuting Mexico; resumed the practice of law in St. Louis; member, attorney, Ritchie County, Va. (now W.Va.); elected as a State house of representatives 1852-1856; elected as a Re- Unionist from Virginia to the Thirty-seventh Congress to Biographies 665

fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States didate for election in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; Representative John S. Carlile (December 2, 1861-March 3, died in Hollidaysburg, Pa., December 8, 1890; interment 1863); elected as an Unconditional Unionist from West Vir- in the Presbyterian Cemetery. ginia to the Thirty-eighth Congress (December 7, 1863- March 3, 1865); United States Minister to Costa Rica, 1868- BLAISDELL, Daniel, a Representative from New Hamp- 1873; associate justice of the supreme court of Wyoming, shire; born in Amesbury, Mass., January 22, 1762; attended 1876-1888; probate judge for Salt Lake County, Utah, 1892- the public schools; served in the Revolutionary War from 1895; surveyor general of Utah, 1897-1901; died on February August 1776 to August 1777; moved to Canaan, N.H., in 12, 1901, Salt Lake City, Utah; interment in Mount Olive 1780; taught school and also acquired some legal knowledge; Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah. engaged in agricultural pursuits; held several local offices; Bibliography: Winston, Sheldon. ‘‘West Virginia’ First Delegation to member of the State house of representatives in 1793, 1795, Congress.’’ West Virginia History 29 (July 1968): 274-7. and 1799; served as a member of the executive council 1803- 1808; moderator of Canaan in 1808, 1809, 1812, 1822, 1824, BLAIR, James, a Representative from South Carolina; 1826, and 1830; elected as a Federalist to the Eleventh born in the Waxhaw settlement, Lancaster County, S.C., Congress (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1811); served in the War about 1790; engaged in planting; sheriff of Lancaster Dis- of 1812; again a member of the State house of representa- trict; elected to the Seventeenth Congress and served from tives, in 1812, 1813, 1824, and 1825; served as selectman March 4, 1821, to May 8, 1822, when he resigned; elected of Canaan in 1813, 1815, and 1818; resumed agricultural as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through Twenty-third pursuits; member of the State senate in 1814 and 1815; Congresses and served from March 4, 1829, until his death chief justice of the court of sessions in 1822; died in Canaan, in Washington, D.C., April 1, 1834; interment in Congres- N.H., January 10, 1833; interment in Wells Cemetery. sional Cemetery. BLAKE, Harrison Gray Otis, a Representative from BLAIR, James Gorrall, a Representative from Missouri; Ohio; born in Newfane, Windham County, Vt., March 17, born near Blairville, Ky., January 1, 1825; was self-edu- 1818; moved to Salem, N.Y., and in 1830 to Guilford, Medina cated, having attended the public schools only three months; County, Ohio; attended the public schools; studied medicine moved to Monticello, Lewis County, Mo., in 1840 and en- at Seville for one year; moved to Medina in 1836 and en- gaged in agricultural pursuits; elected circuit clerk in 1848 gaged in mercantile pursuits; also studied law; was admitted and served until 1854; studied law; was admitted to the to the bar and commenced practice in Medina; member of bar and commenced practice in Canton, Mo., in 1854; dele- the State house of representatives in 1846 and 1847; mem- gate to the Republican State convention in 1870; elected ber of the State senate in 1848 and 1849, serving as its as a Liberal Republican to the Forty-second Congress president; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Con- (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); was not a candidate for gress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Cyrus Spink; renomination in 1872; resumed the practice of law and also reelected to the Thirty-seventh Congress and served from engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Monticello, Lewis October 11, 1859, to March 3, 1863; was not a candidate County, Mo., March 1, 1904; interment in Forest Grove for renomination in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress; en- Cemetery, Canton, Mo. tered the Union Army in 1864 as colonel of the One Hun- BLAIR, John, a Representative from Tennessee; born at dred and Sixty-sixth Regiment; declined the appointment Blairs Mill, near Jonesborough (now Jonesboro), Washington of Governor of Idaho Territory; resumed the practice of law; County, Tenn., September 13, 1790; attended Martain Acad- also interested in banking and mercantile pursuits; delegate emy, and was graduated from Washington (Tenn.) College to the Loyalist Convention at Philadelphia in 1866; died in 1809; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1813 and in Medina, Medina County, Ohio, April 16, 1876; interment practiced; member of the State house of representatives in Spring Grove Cemetery. 1815-1817; served in the State senate 1817-1821; elected to the Eighteenth Congress; reelected to the Nineteenth BLAKE, John Lauris, a Representative from New Jer- Congress and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth sey; born in Boston, Mass., March 25, 1831; received a clas- through Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, sical education; moved to Orange, N.J., in 1846; studied 1835); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Depart- law; was admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced prac- ment of State (Twentieth Congress); unsuccessful candidate tice in Orange, N.J.; member of the State house of assembly for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress; retired in 1857; delegate to the Republican National Convention to private life; again a member of the State house of rep- in 1876; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth Congress resentatives, in 1849 and 1850; resumed the practice of law; (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); declined to be a candidate died in Jonesboro, Tenn., July 9, 1863; interment in the for renomination in 1880; resumed the practice of his profes- Old Cemetery. sion in Orange; became president of the Citizens’ Gas Light Bibliography: Bloomer, Faye T. ‘‘The Legislative Career of John Blair.’’ Co. of Newark, N.J., in 1893; died in West Orange, Essex Master’s thesis, East Tennessee State University, 1956. County, N.J., October 10, 1899; interment in Rosedale Ceme- tery, Orange, N.J. BLAIR, Samuel Steel, a Representative from Pennsyl- vania; born in Indiana, Indiana County, Pa., December 5, BLAKE, John, Jr., a Representative from New York; 1821; attended the public schools and was graduated from born in Ulster County, N.Y., December 5, 1762; attended Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa., in 1838; studied law; the public schools; during the Revolutionary War served in was admitted to the bar in 1845 and commenced practice the New York State Militia; appointed deputy sheriff of Ul- in Hollidaysburg, Blair County, Pa., in 1846; delegate to ster County in 1793; member of the State assembly 1798- the Republican National Convention in 1856; elected as a 1800; sheriff of Orange County 1803-1805; elected as a Re- Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Con- publican to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses (March 4, 1805- gresses (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1863); chairman, Com- March 3, 1809); again a member of the State assembly in mittee on Private Lands (Thirty-seventh Congress); unsuc- 1812 and 1813; judge of the court of common pleas for Or- cessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth ange County 1815-1818; again served in the State assembly Congress; resumed the practice of law; unsuccessful can- in 1819; supervisor of the town of Montgomery fifteen terms; 666 Biographical Directory

died in Montgomery, Orange County, N.Y., January 13, enty-third Congress (March 3, 1933-January 3, 1935); was 1826; interment in the Berea Churchyard, near Newburgh, a candidate for renomination, but withdrew after being nom- N.Y. inated; practiced law in Edgerton, Wis., until his death there October 2, 1964; interment in Fassett Cemetery. BLAKE, Thomas Holdsworth, a Representative from In- diana; born in Calvert County, Md., June 14, 1792; attended BLANCHARD, James Johnston, a Representative from the public schools; studied law in Washington, D.C.; member Michigan; born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., August of the militia of the District of Columbia which took part 8, 1942; attended the public schools of Ferndale, Mich.; B.A., in the in 1814; moved to Kentucky Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1964; M.B.A., and thence to Indiana; was admitted to the bar and com- Michigan State University, 1965; J.D., University of Min- menced practice in Terre Haute, Ind.; prosecuting attorney nesota Law School, Minneapolis, 1968; admitted to the and judge of the circuit court; abandoned the practice of Michigan bar in 1968 and commenced practice in Lansing; law to engage in business; member of the State house of legal advisor to Michigan Secretary of State, 1968-1969; As- representatives; elected to the Twentieth Congress (March sistant Attorney General of Michigan, 1969-1974; adminis- 4, 1827-March 3, 1829); was an unsuccessful candidate for trative assistant to the attorney general, 1970-1971; assist- reelection in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress; was ap- ant deputy attorney general, 1971-1972; elected as a Demo- pointed Commissioner of the General Land Office by Presi- crat to the Ninety-fourth and to the three succeeding Con- dent Tyler on May 19, 1842, and served until April 1845; gresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1983); was not a can- chosen president of the Erie & Wabash Canal Co.; visited didate for reelection in 1982 but was elected Governor of England as financial agent of the State of Indiana and, Michigan; reelected in 1986 and served from 1983-1991; un- while returning, died in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 28, successful candidate for reelection as governor in 1990; ap- 1849; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Ind. pointed by President Clinton as Ambassador to Canada on May 27, 1993 and served until 1996; lawyer, private prac- BLAKENEY, Albert Alexander, a Representative from tice; is a resident of Beverly Hills, Mich. Maryland; born in Riderwood, Baltimore County, Md., Sep- tember 28, 1850; attended private schools; learned the busi- BLANCHARD, John, a Representative from Pennsyl- ness of cotton manufacturing and established the large cot- vania; born in Peacham Township, Cadedonia County, Vt., ton-duck mills located in Franklinville, Md.; commissioner September 30, 1787; attended the common schools; taught of Baltimore County 1895-1899; elected as a Republican to school; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, the Fifty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1903); N.H., in 1812; moved to Pennsylvania in 1812 and settled declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1902; re- in York, where he again taught school; studied law; was sumed his former business activities in Franklinville, Md.; admitted to the bar March 31, 1815, and commenced prac- elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March tice in Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pa.; moved to Bellefonte 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the same year and continued the practice of law; elected the Sixty-eighth Congress; died in Baltimore, Md., October as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses 15, 1924; interment in the Baltimore Cemetery. (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1849); was not a candidate for BLAKLEY, William Arvis, a Senator from Texas; born renomination in 1848; died in Columbia, Lancaster County, in Miami Station, Saline County, Mo., November 17, 1898; Pa., en route from Washington, D.C., to his home, March moved with his parents to Arapaho, Custer County, Okla.; 9, 1849; interment in Union Cemetery, Bellefonte, Centre during the First World War served in the United States County, Pa. Army; admitted to the bar in 1933 and commenced practice BLANCHARD, Jonathan, a Delegate from New Hamp- in Dallas, Tex.; appointed on January 15, 1957, as a Demo- shire; born in Dunstable, N.H., September 18, 1738; at- crat by the Governor to the United States Senate to fill tended the public schools; chosen a member of the council the vacancy caused by the resignation of Price Daniel and of twelve in 1775; delegate to the Fifth Provincial Congress served from January 15, 1957, to April 28, 1957; declined in 1775; served in the first house of representatives of the to be a candidate for election to the vacancy; unsuccessful State in 1776; appointed State attorney general in 1777; candidate for the Democratic nomination for a full term member of the committee of safety in 1777 and 1778; one to the United States Senate in 1958; again appointed by of the commissioners from New Hampshire to the convention the Governor on January 3, 1961, to the United States Sen- at New Haven, Conn., in 1778 to regulate prices; Member ate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lyndon of the Continental Congress in 1784; first judge of probate B. Johnson and served from January 3, 1961, to June 14, under the State constitution of 1784; brigadier general of 1961; unsuccessful candidate to fill the vacancy; resumed militia 1784-1788; died in Dunstable, N.H., July 16, 1788; former business interests; died in Dallas, Tex., January 5, interment in the Old South Burying Ground at Dunstable, 1976; interment in Restland Memorial Park. now merged into the town of Nashua, N.H. Bibliography: Welch, June Rayfield. ‘‘Bill Blakley Looked Like a Texas Senator.’’ In The Texas Senator, pp. 64-65. Dallas: G.L.A. Press, 1978; BLANCHARD, Newton Crain, a Representative and a Welch, June Rayfield. ‘‘Bill Blakley Served in Both Senatorial Lines.’’ In Senator from Louisiana; born in Rapides Parish, La., Janu- The Texas Senator, pp. 144-47. Dallas: G.L.A. Press, 1978. ary 29, 1849; completed academic studies; studied law in BLANCHARD, George Washington, a Representative Alexandria, La., in 1868 and graduated from the law depart- from Wisconsin; born in Colby, Marathon County, Wis., Jan- ment of the University of Louisiana in 1870; admitted to uary 26, 1884; attended the graded and high schools; was the bar and commenced practice in Shreveport, La., in 1871; graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1879; 1906 and from its law department in 1910; was admitted elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh and to the six to the bar in 1910 and commenced practice in Edgerton, succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1881, until Rock County, Wis.; city attorney of Edgerton from 1912 until his resignation, effective March 12, 1894; chairman, Com- his resignation in 1932, having been elected to Congress; mittee on Rivers and Harbors (Fiftieth through Fifty-third member of the State assembly 1925-1927; served in the Congresses); appointed and subsequently elected as a Demo- State senate 1927-1933; elected as a Republican to the Sev- crat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused Biographies 667

by the resignation of Edward D. White and served from his death; in 1896 was a prominent candidate for the Demo- March 12, 1894, to March 3, 1897; was not a candidate cratic nomination for President, receiving two hundred and for reelection; chairman, Committee on Improvement of the ninety votes; died in Lebanon, Mo., June 15, 1899; interment Mississippi River and its Tributaries (Fifty-third Congress); in Lebanon Cemetery. elected associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana Bibliography: Haswell, Harold A., Jr. ‘‘The Public Life of Congressman and served from 1897 to 1903, when he resigned; Governor Richard Parks Bland.’’ Ph.D. diss., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1951. of Louisiana 1904-1908; resumed the practice of law in BLAND, Schuyler Otis, a Representative from Virginia; Shreveport, La.; member of the State constitutional conven- born near Gloucester, Gloucester County, Va., May 4, 1872; tion in 1913 and served as president; died in Shreveport, attended the Gloucester Academy, Gloucester, Va.; attended La., June 22, 1922; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; teacher; Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography. lawyer, private practice; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- BLAND, Oscar Edward, a Representative from Indiana; fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of born near Bloomfield, Green County, Ind., November 21, United States Representative William A. Jones; reelected 1877; attended the public schools, Valparaiso University, to the Sixty-sixth and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (July 2, 1918-February 16, 1950); chair, Committee on Mer- Valparaiso, Ind., and the University of Indiana at Bloom- chant Marine and Fisheries (Seventy-third through Seventy- ington; taught school for three years; studied law; was ad- ninth Congresses and Eighty-first Congress); died on Feb- mitted to the bar in 1901 and commenced practice in Linton, ruary 16, 1950, in Bethesda, Md.; interment in Greenlawn Ind.; member of the State senate 1907-1909; unsuccessful Cemetery, Newport News, Va. Republican candidate for election to Congress in 1910, 1912, and 1914; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty- BLAND, Theodorick (nephew of Richard Bland), a Dele- sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1917-March gate and a Representative from Virginia; born at Cawsons, 3, 1923); chairman, Committee on Industrial Arts and Expo- on the Appomattox River, near Petersburg, Prince George sitions (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses); unsuc- County, Va., March 21, 1742; was sent to England to be cessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth educated; studied medicine in Edinburgh and was admitted Congress; appointed by President Warren G. Harding as to practice; returned to his home in 1759 and engaged in associate judge of the United States Court of Customs Ap- extensive practice; took an active part in the Revolutionary peals (now the United States Court of Customs and Patent War; entered the Continental Army as captain of the First Appeals) on March 4, 1923, and served until his resignation Troop of Virginia Cavalry; Member of the Continental Con- on December 1, 1949; resumed the private practice of law gress 1780-1783; appointed by Governor Henry as lieutenant in Washington, D.C., where he died August 3, 1951; inter- of Prince George County Militia in 1785; member, State ment in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. house of delegates, 1786-1788; member of the Virginia con- vention of 1788 on the adoption of the Federal Constitution BLAND, Richard (uncle of Theodorick Bland), a Delegate and was one of the minority which opposed its ratification; from Virginia; born in Orange County, Va., May 6, 1710; elected to the First Congress and served from March 4, completed preparatory studies; attended the College of Wil- 1789, until his death in New York City June 1, 1790; inter- liam and Mary; member of the Virginia House of Burgesses ment in Trinity Churchyard; reinterred in the Congressional 1742-1775; member of the Virginia committee of correspond- Cemetery, Washington, D.C., August 31, 1828. ence in 1773; Member of the Continental Congress in 1774 and 1775; again chosen, but declined to serve; member of BLAND, William Thomas (grandson of John George Jackson and cousin of James Monroe Jackson), a Represent- the Virginia Revolutionary conventions of 1775 and 1776; ative from Missouri; born in Weston, Lewis County, Va. elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1776; died (now West Virginia), January 21, 1861; was graduated from in Williamsburg, Va., October 26, 1776; interment in a pri- the University of West Virginia at Morgantown in 1883 and vate cemetery on the Jordan Point plantation, on the James from the law department of that university in 1884; took River. a special course in law at the University of Virginia at Bibliography: Detweiler, Robert C. ‘‘Richard Bland: Conservator of Self- Charlottesville in 1885; was admitted to the bar and com- Government in Eighteenth-Century Virginia.’’ Ph.D. diss., University of Washington, 1968. menced practice in Weston, W.Va.; moved to Atchison, Kans., in 1887; prosecuting attorney of Atchison County, BLAND, Richard Parks, a Representative from Mis- Kans., 1890-1892; mayor of Atchison in 1894; elected judge souri; born near Hartford, Ohio County, Ky., August 19, of the second Kansas district in 1896; reelected in 1900, 1835; received an academic education; moved to Missouri and served until 1901, when he resigned; entered the whole- in 1855, thence to California, and later to that portion of sale drug business in 1901; moved to Kansas City, Mo., Utah which is now the State of Nevada; taught school for in 1904 and continued in business until 1917 when he en- several years; studied law; was admitted to the bar and gaged in banking; chairman of the Kansas City River and commenced practice in Virginia City; also interested in min- Harbor Improvement Commission 1909-1918; director of the ing; treasurer of Carson County from 1860 until the organi- National Rivers and Harbors Congress; vice president of zation of the State government of Nevada; returned to Mis- the Mississippi Valley Waterway Association; elected to the souri in 1865 and continued the practice of law in Rolla; Kansas City Board of Education in 1912 for a six-year term moved to Lebanon, Laclede County, in August 1869; elected and served as vice president and president; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March as a Democrat to the Forty-third and to the ten succeeding 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1895); chairman, Com- the Sixty-seventh Congress, moved to Florida and settled mittee on Mines and Mining (Forty-fourth Congress), Com- in Orlando in 1921; engaged in banking; served as a member mittee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures (Forty-eighth of the Orlando Utilities Commission for three years; died through Fiftieth Congresses and Fifty-second and Fifty-third in Orlando, Orange County, Fla., January 15, 1928; inter- Congresses); sponsor of the Bland-Allison silver purchase ment in Greenwood Cemetery. act of 1878; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; elected to the Fifty-fifth and BLANTON, Leonard Ray, a Representative from Ten- Fifty-sixth Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, until nessee; born on a farm in Hardin County, Tenn., April 10, 668 Biographical Directory

1930; attended the public schools of Hardin County; Univer- the 3 years of Japanese occupation during World War II; sity of Tennessee at Knoxville, B.S., 1951; in 1954, with was graduated from the University of Notre Dame, South his father and brother, organized the B & B Construction Bend, Ind., in 1951; received an M.A. from George Wash- Co.; in 1964, elected to Tennessee house of representatives ington University, Washington, D.C., in 1963; was graduated from McNairy and Chester Counties; elected as a Democrat from the Naval War College, Newport, R.I., in 1971; commis- to the Ninetieth and to the two succeeding Congresses (Jan- sioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps in uary 3, 1967-January 3, 1973); was not a candidate for re- 1951, awarded the Legion of Merit, Bronze Medal with Com- election in 1972 but was an unsuccessful candidate for elec- bat ‘‘V’’, Navy Commendation Medal, and the Vietnamese tion to the United States Senate; elected Governor of Ten- Cross of Gallantry, and retired with the rank of brigadier nessee in 1974 and served from January 18, 1975, until general in 1980; professor at the University of Guam 1983- January 17, 1979; was not a candidate for reelection as 1984; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-ninth and to Governor in 1978; unsuccessful candidate for nomination in the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1985-January 1988 to the One Hundred First Congress; died November 3, 1993); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1992 to 22, 1996. the One Hundred Third Congress; is a resident of Ordot, BLANTON, Thomas Lindsay, a Representative from Guam. Texas; born in Houston, Harris County, Tex., October 25, BLEAKLEY, Orrin Dubbs, a Representative from Penn- 1872; educated in the public schools; was graduated from sylvania; born in Franklin, Venango County, Pa., May 15, the law department of the University of Texas at Austin 1854; attended the common schools, the local academy of in 1897, with three years in the academic department; was his native city, and the University of Bonn, in Prussia; en- admitted to the bar in 1897 and commenced practice in gaged in banking with his father until 1876; interested in Cleburne, Tex.; moved to Albany, Tex., and continued the the production of oil from 1876 to 1883; organized the practice of law until 1908, when he was elected judge of Franklin Trust Company in the latter year, and became the forty-second judicial district of Texas; reelected in 1912 its president; delegate at large to the Republican National and served in that capacity from 1908 until elected to Con- Convention in 1904; served as chairman of the Venango gress; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and to the County Republican committee; elected as a Republican to five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1929); the Sixty-fifth Congress and served from March 4 to April censured by the House of Representatives on October 24, 1921, for abuse of leave to print; was not a candidate for 3, 1917, when he resigned without having qualified; resumed renomination in 1928 but was an unsuccessful candidate banking in Franklin, Pa.; died in Robinson, Ill., December for nomination to the United States Senate; subsequently 3, 1927; interment in Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Pa. elected on May 20, 1930, to the Seventy-first Congress to BLEASE, Coleman Livingston, a Senator from South fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert Q. Lee; re- Carolina; born near Newberry, Newberry County, S.C., Octo- elected to the Seventy-second, Seventy-third, and Seventy- ber 8, 1868; attended the common schools; graduated from fourth Congresses and served from May 20, 1930, to January the law department of Georgetown University, Washington, 3, 1937; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1936; D.C., in 1889; admitted to the bar the same year and com- engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C., in 1937 menced practice in Newberry, S.C.; member, State house and 1938; returned to Albany, Tex., in 1938, and continued of representatives 1890-1894, 1899, and 1900, serving as practicing law; also engaged in the raising of Hereford cattle; died in Albany, Tex., August 11, 1957; interment in Albany speaker pro tempore 1892-1894; mayor of Helena, S.C., in Cemetery. 1897; city attorney of Newberry in 1901 and 1902; member, State senate 1905-1909, serving as president pro tempore BLATNIK, John Anton, a Representative from Min- in 1906 and 1907; mayor of Newberry in 1910; Governor nesota; born in Chisholm, St. Louis County, Minn., August of South Carolina 1911-1915; elected as a Democrat to the 17, 1911; attended the public schools and was graduated United States Senate and served from March 4, 1925, to from Chisholm High School in June 1929; taught a one- March 3, 1931; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in room rural school in St. Louis County in 1930 and 1931; 1930; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic guber- State Teachers College, Winona, Minn., B.E., June 1935; natorial nomination in 1934 and 1938; elected a member also attended the University of Chicago during summer of of the State unemployment compensation commission for 1938 and the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in a four-year term beginning in 1941; died in Columbia, S.C., 1941 and 1942; engaged in CCC work in Superior National January 19, 1942; interment in Rosemont Cemetery, Forest in Minnesota 1935-1937; taught chemistry in high Newberry, S.C. school at Chisholm, Minn., 1937-1939; assistant county su- Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- perintendent of schools of St. Louis County, Minn., 1939- ography; Burnside, Ronald D. ‘‘The Governorship of Coleman Livingston 1941; member of the State senate 1941-1946; served with Blease of S.C.’’ Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1963; Hollis, Daniel the United States Army Air Corps and the Office of Strategic W. ‘‘Cole Blease and the Senatorial Campaign of 1924.’’ Proceedings of the Services from August 1942 until his discharge as a captain South Carolina Historical Association 48 (1978): 53-68. on January 1946 with eighteen months’ service overseas; BLEDSOE, Jesse (uncle of Robert Emmett Bledsoe awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and Baylor), a Senator from Kentucky; born in Culpeper County, the Air Medal; elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth Con- Va., April 6, 1776; when quite young moved with an elder gress; reelected to the thirteen succeeding Congresses and brother to Kentucky; attended Transylvania Seminary and served from January 3, 1947, until his resignation December 31, 1974; chairman, Committee on Public Works (Ninety- Transylvania University, Lexington Ky.; studied law in Lex- second and Ninety-third Congresses); was not a candidate ington; admitted to the bar about 1800 and commenced prac- for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; became tice; appointed secretary of state 1808; member, State house a part-time consultant for shippers; environmental and eco- of representatives 1812; elected as a Democratic Republican nomic development consultant; was a resident of Forest to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1813, Heights, Md., until his death there on December 17, 1991. until his resignation on December 24, 1814; member, State senate 1817-1820; judge of the Lexington circuit in 1822; BLAZ, Ben Garrido, a Delegate from Guam; born in settled in Lexington and was professor of law in Transyl- Agana, Guam, February 14, 1928; lived on the island during vania University; minister in the Disciples Church; moved Biographies 669

to Mississippi in 1833 and to Texas in 1835; died near didate for renomination in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Con- Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Tex., June 25, 1836. gress; elected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889); chairman, Committee on BLEECKER, Harmanus, a Representative from New Pensions (Fiftieth Congress); was not a candidate for re- York; born in Albany, N.Y., October 9, 1779; studied law; nomination in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; engaged in was admitted to the bar in 1801 and commenced practice the real estate business in Washington, D.C., until his death in Albany; elected as a Federalist to the Twelfth Congress there on March 19, 1923; interment in Cypress Hills Ceme- (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); was not a candidate for tery, Brooklyn, N.Y. renomination in 1812; resumed the practice of law in Al- bany, N.Y.; member of the State assembly in 1814 and 1815; BLISS, George, a Representative from Ohio; born in Jeri- regent of the University of the State of New York 1822- cho, Vt., January 1, 1813; attended Granville College; stud- 1834; Charge´ d’Affaires to the Netherlands May 12, 1837, ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1841 and commenced to June 28, 1842; retired from public life and business pur- practice in Akron, Ohio; appointed presiding judge of the suits; died in Albany, N.Y., July 19, 1849; interment in eighth judicial district in 1850 and served until the office the Rural Cemetery. was discontinued, owing to a change in the constitution; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March BLILEY, Thomas Jerome, Jr., a Representative from 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); was a candidate for renomination Virginia; born in Chesterfield County, Va., January 28, 1932; in 1855 but subsequently withdrew; moved to Wooster, Ohio, attended private schools; graduated, Benedictine High and continued the practice of law; elected to the Thirty- School, Richmond, 1948; B.A., Georgetown University, Wash- eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); unsuccess- ington, D.C., 1952; served in the United States Navy, lieu- ful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Con- tenant, 1952-1955; president, Joseph W. Bliley Co. Funeral gress; delegate to the Union National Convention at Phila- Home; vice-mayor, Richmond, 1968-1970; mayor, Richmond, delphia in 1866; died in Wooster, Ohio, October 24, 1868; 1970-1977; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-seventh interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1981- January 3, 2001); chairman, Committee on Commerce (One BLISS, Philemon, a Representative from Ohio; born in Hundred Fourth through One Hundred Sixth Congresses); Canton, Conn., July 28, 1813; attended Fairfield Academy was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Sev- and Hamilton College; studied law; was admitted to the enth Congress. bar in 1840 and commenced practice at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; later practiced in Elyria, Ohio; presiding judge of the BLISS, Aaron Thomas, a Representative from Michigan; fourteenth judicial circuit of Ohio 1848-1851; elected as a born in Peterboro, Madison County, N.Y., May 22, 1837; Republican to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses attended the common schools; employed as a clerk in a (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859); was not a candidate for store in Morrisville, N.Y., in 1853 and 1854; attended a renomination in 1858; appointed chief justice of the supreme select school in Munnsville, N.Y., in 1854; moved to court of the Territory of Dakota by President Lincoln in Bouckville, N.Y., in 1855 and engaged in mercantile pur- 1861; subsequently moved to St. Joseph, Mo.; associate jus- suits; enlisted as a private in the Tenth Regiment, New tice of the supreme court of Missouri 1868-1872; dean of York Volunteer Cavalry, October 1, 1861; served three years, the law division of the State University of Missouri at Co- being confined six months of this time in the prisons of lumbia 1872-1889; died in St. Paul, Minn., August 25, 1889; Andersonville, Charleston, Macon, and Columbia; rose while interment in the Columbia Cemetery, Columbia, Mo. in the service from private to captain; moved to Saginaw, Mich., in December 1865 and engaged in the manufacture BLITCH, Iris Faircloth, a Representative from Georgia; of lumber; member of the State senate in 1882; appointed born in Toombs County, near Vidalia, Ga., April 25, 1912; aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor Alger in 1885; held attended the public schools of Vidalia, Douglas, Fitzgerald, the same position on the staff of the commander in chief and Homerville, Ga., and Hagerstown, Md.; student at the of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1888; elected as a University of Georgia at Athens in 1929 and attended South Republican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March Georgia College at Douglas in 1949; associated with husband 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to in drug business, naval stores operations, and farming in the Fifty-second Congress; resumed the lumber business and Homerville, Ga.; elected to the State senate in 1946; elected also engaged in banking; department commander of the to the State house of representatives in 1948 and defeated Grand Army of the Republic in Michigan in 1897; Governor for reelection in 1950; again elected to the State senate of Michigan 1900-1904; died in Milwaukee, Wis., September in 1952 and served until December 31, 1954; Democratic 16, 1906, while on a visit for medical treatment; interment national committeewoman for Georgia 1948-1956; elected as in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Saginaw, Mich. a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1963); was not a BLISS, Archibald Meserole, a Representative from New candidate for renomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., January 25, 1838; attended Congress; was a resident of St. Simons Island, Ga; moved the common schools; alderman of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1864-1867, in 1988 to San Diego, Calif., where she died on August serving as president of the board of aldermen in 1866; un- 19, 1993; interment in Pinelawn Cemetery, Homerville, Ga. successful Republican candidate for mayor of Brooklyn in 1867; delegate to the Republican National Convention in BLODGETT, Rufus, a Senator from New Jersey; born 1864 and 1868, to the Liberal National Convention in 1872, in Dorchester, N.H., October 9, 1834; attended the common and to the Democratic National Conventions in 1876, 1880, schools and Wentworth (N.H.) Academy; learned the machin- 1884, and 1888; member of the board of water commis- ist’s trade; moved to New Jersey in 1866 and settled in sioners of Brooklyn in 1871 and 1872; president and vice Long Branch; builder of railroad equipment; president of president of the Bushwick Railroad Co., 1868-1878; director the Long Branch City Bank; member, State assembly 1878- of the New York & Long Island Bridge Co.; elected as a 1879; superintendent of the New York & Long Branch Rail- Democrat to the Forty-fourth and to the three succeeding road 1884-1910; elected as a Democrat to the United States Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1883); was not a can- Senate and served from March 4, 1887, to March 3, 1893; 670 Biographical Directory

was not a candidate for reelection; mayor of Long Branch the practice of law in Burlington, N.J.; registrar of the admi- 1893-1898; engaged in the railroad business and in banking; ralty court 1779-1783; State attorney general from 1783 to died in Long Branch, Monmouth County, N.J., October 3, 1792, when he resigned; trustee of Princeton College from 1910; interment in Village Cemetery, Wentworth, Grafton 1793 until his resignation in 1801; County, N.H. 1801-1812; commissioned brigadier general on March 13, 1812, and served until June 15, 1815; elected as a Repub- BLOODWORTH, Timothy, a Delegate, a Representative, lican to the Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the Six- and a Senator from North Carolina; born in New Hanover teenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); unsuccess- County, N.C., in 1736; teacher; in 1776 was employed in ful candidate for reelection to the Seventeenth Congress; making muskets and bayonets for the Continental Army; died in Burlington, Burlington County, N.J., October 3, member, State house of commons 1778-1779; treasurer of 1823; interment in St. Mary’s Episcopal Churchyard. Wilmington District 1781-1782; appointed commissioner of confiscated property in 1783; Member of the Continental BLOUIN, Michael Thomas, a Representative from Iowa; Congress in 1786; member, State senate 1788-1789; elected born in Jacksonville, Duval County, Fla., November 7, 1945; to the First Congress and served from April 6, 1790, to attended elementary and secondary schools of Miami Shores, March 3, 1791; member, State house of representatives Fla., and Chicago, Ill.; B.A., political science, Loras College, 1793-1794; elected to the United States Senate and served Dubuque, Iowa, 1966; taught in the elementary schools of from March 4, 1795, to March 3, 1801; collector of customs Dubuque, Iowa, later worked as advertising consultant; at Wilmington; died in Wilmington, N.C., August 24, 1814. member of the Iowa house of representatives, 1969-1973; Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Bloodworth, Timothy. member of the Iowa state senate, 1973-1974; delegate to ‘‘Letters of and Thomas Person to John Lamb.’’ In Iowa State Democratic conventions, 1966-1973; elected as Historical Papers Published by the Trinity College Historical Society, 14th a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth and to the Ninety-fifth ser., pp. 77-81. 1922. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1970. Congresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1979); unsuccessful BLOOM, Isaac, a Representative from New York, born candidate for reelection to the Ninety-sixth Congress in in Jamaica, Queens County, N.Y., about 1716; moved to 1978; assistant director for community action, Community Dutchess County about 1740; captain of minutemen of Char- Services Administration, 1980-1981; executive director of lotte precinct, Dutchess County, N.Y., 1775; merchant, 1784; foundations and grants, Kirkwood Community College, member of the New York state assembly, 1788-1792; dele- Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1981-1987; director of economic develop- gate to the New York state convention, 1801; member of ment, Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce, 1987-1991; the New York state senate, 1800-1802; elected to the Eighth president, Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce, 1993-1999; Congress (March 4, 1803-April 26, 1803); died on April 26, director, Iowa Department of Economic Development, 2003- 1803, in Clinton, Dutchess County, N.Y.; interment probably present; is a resident of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. in Jamaica, N.Y. BLOUNT, James Henderson, a Representative from BLOOM, Sol, a Representative from New York; born in Georgia; born near Clinton, Jones County, Ga., September Pekin, Tazewell County, Ill., March 9, 1870; moved with 12, 1837; attended private schools in Clinton, Ga., and Tus- his parents to San Francisco, Calif., in 1873; attended the caloosa, Ala.; was graduated from the University of Georgia public schools; engaged in the newspaper, theatrical, and at Athens in 1858; studied law; was admitted to the bar music-publishing businesses; superintendent of construction in 1859 and commenced practice in Clinton, Jones County, of the Midway Plaisance at the World’s Columbian Expo- Ga.; moved to Macon, Ga., in 1872 and continued the prac- sition at Chicago in 1893; moved to New York City in 1903 tice of law; during the Civil War served in the Confederate and engaged in the real estate and construction business; Army as a private in the Second Georgia Battalion, Floyd captain in the New York Naval Reserve in 1917; elected Rifles, for two years, and was later lieutenant colonel for as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress by special elec- two years; delegate to the State constitutional convention tion, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States in 1865; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and to Representative-elect Samuel Marx, and reelected to the thir- the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, teen succeeding Congresses (January 30, 1923-March 7, 1893); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Depart- 1949); chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs (Seventy- ment of Justice (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on the sixth through Seventy-ninth Congresses and Eighty-first Post Office and Post Roads (Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Con- Congress), Special Committee on Chamber Improvements gresses), Committee on Foreign Affairs (Fifty-second Con- (Eighty-first Congress); director of the United States George gress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1892; ap- Washington Bicentennial Commission; director general of pointed by President Cleveland commissioner to the Hawai- the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commis- ian Islands on March 20, 1893; retired from that position sion; chairman of the Committee on Celebration of the One in 1893 and devoted his time to his plantation interests; Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the United States Su- died in Macon, Ga., March 8, 1903; interment in Rose Hill preme Court; director and United States Commissioner, New Cemetery. York World’s Fair, in 1939; died on March 7, 1949, in Wash- BLOUNT, Thomas (brother of William Blount and uncle ington, D.C.; interment in Mount Eden Cemetery, West- of William Grainger Blount), a Representative from North chester Hills, N.Y. Carolina; born at ‘‘Blount Hall,’’ Craven (now Pitt) County, Bibliography: Bloom Sol. The Autobiography of Sol Bloom. New York: Putnam’s, 1948. N.C., May 10, 1759; educated at home; at the age of sixteen years entered the Continental Army; was captured and sent BLOOMFIELD, Joseph, a Representative from New Jer- to England as a ; after the Revolutionary sey; born in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, N.J., October War engaged in the mercantile business in Tarboro, 18, 1753; educated at Rev. Enoch Green’s school in Deerfield, Edgecombe County, N.C.; member of the State house of com- N.J.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1775 and mons in 1788; elected to the Third Congress and as a Repub- commenced practice in Bridgeton, N.J.; entered the Revolu- lican to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses (March 4, 1793- tionary Army as captain of the Third New Jersey Regiment March 3, 1799); unsuccessful candidate for election in 1802 on February 9, 1776; attained the rank of major; resumed to the Eighth Congress; elected to the Ninth and Tenth Biographies 671

Congresses (March 4, 1805-March 3, 1809); unsuccessful BLUE, Richard Whiting, a Representative from Kansas; candidate for reelection in 1808 to the Eleventh Congress; born near Parkersburg, Wood County, Va. (now West Vir- elected to the Twelfth Congress and served from March 4, ginia), September 8, 1841; worked on a farm in the summer- 1811, until his death in Washington, D.C., February 7, 1812; time and studied in the select schools of that locality during interment in the Congressional Cemetery. the winter season; attended Monongalia Academy, Morgan- town, Va., in 1859 and Washington (Pa.) College until his BLOUNT, William (father of William Grainger Blount enlistment, on June 29, 1863, as a private in Company and brother of Thomas Blount), a Delegate from North Caro- A, Third Regiment, West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, during lina and a Senator from Tennessee; born near Windsor, the Civil War; became second and then first lieutenant of Bertie County, N.C., March 26, 1749; pursued preparatory the company; honorably discharged May 22, 1866, at Leav- studies in New Bern, N.C.; paymaster of the Continental enworth, Kans., when he returned to Grafton, W.Va.; taught troops, North Carolina Line, in 1777; member, State house of commons 1780-1784; Member of the Continental Congress school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Virginia, in 1782, 1783, 1786, and 1787; delegate to the convention and commenced practice in Linn County, Kans., in 1871; that framed the Federal Constitution in 1787; member, probate judge of Linn County 1872-1876; county attorney State senate 1788-1790; appointed Governor of the Territory 1876-1880; member of the State senate 1880-1888; elected South of the by President George Washington as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895- in 1790; Superintendent of Indian Affairs 1790-1796; chair- March 3, 1897); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 man of the convention which framed the first State constitu- to the Fifty-fifth Congress; engaged in the practice of law tion of Tennessee 1796; upon the admission of Tennessee until his death in Bartlesville, Washington County, Okla., as a State into the Union was elected to the United States January 28, 1907; interment in Pleasanton Cemetery, Senate and served from August 2, 1796, until he was found Pleasanton, Linn County, Kans. guilty ‘‘of a high misdemeanor, entirely inconsistent with his public trust and duty as a Senator,’’ because he had BLUMENAUER, Earl, a Representative from Oregon; been active in a plan to incite the Creek and Cherokee born in Portland, Washington County, Oreg., August 16, Indians to aid the British in conquering the Spanish terri- 1948; graduated from Centennial High School, 1966; B.A., tory of West Florida; expelled from the Senate July 8, 1797; Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oreg., 1970; J.D., Lewis impeachment proceedings were instituted but dismissed; and Clark College, Portland, Oreg., 1976; assistant to the during the trial was elected to the State senate of Tennessee president of Portland State University, Portland, Oreg.; and chosen its president; died in Knoxville, Tenn., March member of the Oregon state house of representatives, 1973- 21, 1800; interment in the First Presbyterian Church Ceme- 1978; Multnomah County, Oreg., commissioner, 1978-1985; tery. Portland, Oreg., city commissioner, 1986-1996; served on the Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- Governor’s commission on higher education, 1990-1991; ography; Masterson, William. William Blount. 1954. Reprint. New York: elected as a Democrat, by special election to the One Hun- Greenwood Press, 1969; Melton, Buckner F., Jr. The First Impeachment: dred Fourth Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the The Constitution’s Framers and the Case of Senator William Blount. resignation of United States Representative Ronald L. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1998. Wyden, reelected to the four succeeding Congresses (May BLOUNT, William Grainger (son of William Blount and 21, 1996-present). nephew of Thomas Blount), a Representative from Ten- BLUNT, Roy, a Representative from Missouri; born in nessee; born near New Bern, Craven County, N.C., in 1784; Niangua, Webster County, Mo., January 10, 1950; B.A., attended the New Bern Academy; moved with his parents Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, Mo., 1970; M.A., to Knoxville, Tenn., in 1792; studied law; was admitted to Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, 1972; the bar in 1805 and commenced practice in Knoxville; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of State house clerk and chief election officer, Greene County, Mo., 1973- of representatives in 1811; secretary of state of Tennessee 1984; Missouri state secretary of state, 1984-1993; president, 1811-1815; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Con- Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, Mo., 1993-1996; elect- gress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Sevier; ed as a Republican to the One Hundred Fifth and to the reelected to the Fifteenth Congress and served from Decem- three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1997-present); ma- ber 8, 1815, to March 3, 1819; declined to be a candidate jority whip (One Hundred Eighth Congress). for renomination; resumed the practice of his profession in BLUTE, Peter I., a Representative from Massachusetts; Knoxville; moved to Paris, Henry County, Tenn., in 1826 born in Worcester, Mass., January 28, 1956; attended paro- and continued the practice of law until his death on May chial schools; B.A., Boston College, 1978; owner of a sports 21, 1827; interment in the City Cemetery. promotion and marketing firm; marketing representative, BLOW, Henry Taylor, a Representative from Missouri; The Burdett School; member, Massachusetts house of rep- born in Southampton County, Va., July 15, 1817; moved resentatives, 1986-1993; elected as a Republican to the One to St. Louis, Mo., in 1830; attended St. Louis University Hundred Third and to the One Hundred Fourth Congresses in 1830 and 1831; engaged in the paint and oil business (January 3, 1993-January 3, 1997); unsuccessful candidate and later became especially interested in lead mines; mem- for reelection to the One Hundred Fifth Congress. ber of the State senate 1854-1858; served as Minister Resi- dent at Venezuela from June 8, 1861, to February 22, 1862; BOARDMAN, Elijah (father of William Whiting elected as an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-eighth Boardman), a Senator from Connecticut; born in New Mil- Congress and as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress ford, Conn., March 7, 1760; educated under private tutors; (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1867); was not a candidate for served in the Revolutionary War; employed as clerk in a renomination in 1866; resumed his former business pursuits; mercantile establishment; engaged in mercantile pursuits Minister to from May 1, 1869, to February 11, 1871; 1781-1812; member, State house of representatives 1803- was a member of the Board of Commissioners of the District 1805 and again in 1816; member, State upper house 1817- of Columbia in 1874 and 1875; died in Saratoga, Saratoga 1819; member, State senate 1819-1821; elected as a Demo- County, N.Y., September 11, 1875; interment in Belle- cratic Republican to the United States Senate and served fontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo. from March 4, 1821, until his death while on a visit to 672 Biographical Directory

Boardman, Ohio, August 18, 1823; interment in the Center College, Schenectady, N.Y., 1803; studied law in Pough- Cemetery, New Milford, Conn. keepsie; was admitted to the bar in 1806 and practiced in Poughkeepsie until 1815, when he returned to BOARDMAN, William Whiting (son of Elijah Shekomeko; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the Boardman), a Representative from Connecticut; born in New State assembly in 1820; elected as a Jacksonian to the Milford, Conn., October 10, 1794; attended Bacon Academy, Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1831); elect- Colchester, Conn.; was graduated from Yale College in 1812; ed to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses studied law in Cambridge and Litchfield Law Schools and (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); chairman, Committee on commenced the practice of his profession in New Haven Agriculture (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses); in 1819; clerk of the State senate in 1820; judge of probate; served in the State senate 1840-1844; elected judge of the member of the State house of representatives 1836-1839, court of errors in 1843; first judge of the Dutchess County serving as speaker in 1836 and 1839; elected as a Whig Court in 1846; died in Shekomeko, N.Y., June 1, 1865; inter- to the Twenty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by ment on his estate near Shekomeko. the resignation of William L. Storrs; reelected to the Twen- ty-seventh Congress and served from December 7, 1840, to BOCOCK, Thomas Stanley, a Representative from Vir- March 3, 1843; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings ginia; born at Buckingham Court House, Buckingham (now and Grounds (Twenty-seventh Congress); was not a can- Appomattox) County, Va., May 18, 1815; educated by private didate for renomination in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Con- tutors; was graduated from Hampden-Sidney College, Vir- gress; member of the State house of representatives in 1845, ginia, in 1838; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849, and 1851, serving as speaker in 1845; resumed the 1840 and commenced practice at Buckingham Court House; practice of law; died in New Haven, Conn., August 27, 1871; member of the State house of delegates 1842-1844; served interment in Grove Street Cemetery. as prosecuting attorney of Appomattox County in 1845 and 1846; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth and to the BOARMAN, Alexander (Aleck), a Representative from six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1861); Louisiana; born in Yazoo City, Yazoo County, Miss., Decem- chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Thirty-third and ber 10, 1839; lost his parents in infancy and was raised Thirty-fifth Congresses); elected a Representative to the by relatives in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, La.; attended the Confederate Congress in 1861, being chosen speaker of that common schools of Shreveport, La., and Kentucky Military body February 18, 1862; again served as a member of the Institute at Frankfort; was graduated from the University State house of delegates 1877-1879; was a delegate to the of Kentucky at Lexington in 1860; at the outbreak of the Democratic National Conventions in 1868, 1876, and 1880; Civil War enlisted in the Confederate Army and served as died in Appomattox County, Va., on August 5, 1891; inter- lieutenant of the Caddo Rifles; was subsequently promoted ment in Old Bocock Cemetery (private burying ground), near to the rank of captain and served throughout the war; stud- Wildway, Va. ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Shreveport, La.; mayor of Shreveport from May BODEN, Andrew, a Representative from Pennsylvania; 7, 1866, to August 8, 1867; city attorney of Shreveport 1868- born in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa., birth date un- 1872; unsuccessful candidate for election as secretary of known; attended the public schools; studied law; was admit- state in 1872; elected as a Liberal Republican to the Forty- ted to the bar and practiced; also engaged in the real estate second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death business; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress of Representative-elect James McCleery and served from De- and reelected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1817- cember 3, 1872, to March 3, 1873; unsuccessful candidate March 3, 1821); resumed the practice of law; died in Carlisle, for renomination in 1872; resumed the practice of law in Pa., December 20, 1835. Shreveport, La.; judge of the tenth judicial district court, BODINE, Robert Nall, a Representative from Missouri; Caddo Parish, La., 1877-1880; appointed United States judge born near Paris, Monroe County, Mo., December 17, 1837; for the western district of Louisiana by President Garfield attended Paris Academy and was graduated from the Uni- on May 18, 1881, and served until his death, while on a versity of Missouri at Columbia in 1859; principal of the visit, at Loon Lake, Franklin County, N.Y., August 30, 1916; Paris public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar interment in Oakland Cemetery, Shreveport, La. and began practice in Paris, Mo.; prosecuting attorney of Monroe County; delegate to the State convention in 1890; BOATNER, Charles Jahleal, a Representative from member of the State house of representatives 1895-1897; Louisiana; born in Columbia, Caldwell Parish, La., January elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 23, 1849; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); unsuccessful candidate for renomi- admitted to the bar in 1870 and practiced; member of the nation in 1898; resumed the practice of law in Paris, Mo., State senate from 1876 until May 1878; elected as a Demo- and died there March 16, 1914; interment in Walnut Grove crat to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Con- Cemetery. gresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1895); presented creden- tials as a Member-elect to the Fifty-fourth Congress but BODLE, Charles, a Representative from New York; born on March 20, 1896, the House declared the seat vacant, near Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., in 1787; was the election having been contested by Alexis Benoit; elected a wagon maker by trade; justice of the peace; held several to fill the vacancy caused by the House declaring the seat political offices in Bloomingburg, Sullivan County; elected vacant and served from June 10, 1896, to March 3, 1897; as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1896; moved 1833-March 3, 1835); died in New York City October 31, to New Orleans and resumed the practice of law; died in 1835; interment in Bloomingburg Cemetery, Bloomingburg, New Orleans, La., on March 21, 1903; interment in Monroe N.Y. Cemetery, Monroe, La. BOEHLERT, Sherwood Louis, a Representative from BOCKEE, Abraham, a Representative from New York; New York; born in Utica, Oneida County, N.Y., September born in Shekomeko, Dutchess County, N.Y., February 3, 28, 1936; B.A., Utica College, Utica, N.Y., 1961; United 1784; attended the public schools; was graduated from Union States Army, 1956-1958; staff for United States Representa- Biographies 673

tive Alexander Pirnie of New York, 1964-1979; elected, coun- BOERUM, Simon, a Delegate from New York; born in ty executive, Oneida County, N.Y., 1979-1982; delegate, New New Lots (now Brooklyn), Long Island, N.Y., February 29, York state Republican convention, 1980; delegate, Repub- 1724; attended the Dutch school at Flatbush, N.Y., from lican National Convention, 1980; elected as a Republican which he was graduated; engaged in agricultural pursuits to the Ninety-eighth and to the ten succeeding Congresses and milling; appointed county clerk of Kings County by Gov- (January 3, 1983-present); chair, Committee on Science (One ernor Clinton in 1750; also became clerk of the board of Hundred Seventh through One Hundred Eighth Congresses). supervisors and held both positions until his death; member of the colonial assembly 1761-1775; deputy to the provincial BOEHNE, John William (father of John William convention in April 1775; Member of the Continental Con- Boehne, Jr.), a Representative from Indiana; born in Scott gress in 1774 and 1775; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., July 11, Township, Vanderburgh County, Ind., October 28, 1856; at- 1775; interment in Glenwood Cemetery. tended the district schools, the German parochial school of Bibliography: [Burdge, Franklin]. The Life of a Patriot Whom Death the Lutheran Church, and Evansville Business College; Deprived of His Chance of Signing the Immortal Declaration of American moved to Evansville, Ind., in 1872, becoming an accountant; Independence, Simon Boerum, of Brooklyn, N.Y. [New York?: n.p., 1876?]. engaged in the manufacture of stoves and ranges and was interested in other manufacturing enterprises; elected coun- BOGGS, Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) (wife of Thomas cilman at large in 1897 and reelected in 1899; unsuccessful , Sr., great, great grandniece of John Francis Democratic candidate for mayor of Evansville in 1901; mayor Hamtramck Claiborne, great, great, great grandniece of Na- 1905-1908; delegate to the Democratic National Convention thaniel Herbert Claiborne and William Charles Cole Clai- in 1908; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and Sixty- borne, and great, great, great, great grandniece of Thomas second Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1913); was not Claiborne [1749-1812]), a Representative from Louisiana; a candidate for renomination in 1912; director of the Federal born Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne, on Brunswick Plan- Reserve Bank at St. Louis, Mo.; retired from active business tation, Pointe Coupee Parish, La., March 13, 1916; grad- pursuits; died in Evansville, Ind., December 27, 1946; inter- uated from St. Joseph’s Academy, New Roads, La., 1931; ment in the Lutheran Cemetery. B.A., Sophie Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Or- leans, La., 1935; teacher; elected as a Democrat to the Nine- BOEHNE, John William, Jr. (son of John William ty-third Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy Boehne), a Representative from Indiana; born in Evansville, pronounced by House Resolution 1, Ninety-third Congress, Vanderburgh County, Ind., March 2, 1895; attended the pub- of the presumed death of Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr., and re- lic and parochial schools; was graduated from the University elected to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 20, 1973- of Wisconsin at Madison in 1918; during the First World January 3, 1991); chair, Joint Committee on Bicentennial War served as a private and sergeant in the Detached Serv- Arrangements (Ninety-fourth Congress); chair, Commission ice, Ordnance, United States Army, from January 9, 1918, on the Bicentenary of the United States House of Represent- to April 8, 1919; secretary and treasurer of the Indiana atives (Ninety-ninth through One Hundred First Con- Stove Works at Evansville, Ind., 1920-1931; elected as a gresses); was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hun- Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress; reelected to the dred Second Congress in 1990; United States Ambassador five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1943); to the Vatican, 1997-2001. unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy- Bibliography: Boggs, Lindy, with Katherine Hatch. Washington eighth Congress; corporation tax counselor in Washington, Through a Purple Veil: Memoirs of a Southern Woman. New York: Har- D.C., 1943-1957; retired; died in Irvington, Md., July 5, court Brace and Co., 1994; Ferrell, Thomas H., and Judith Haydel. ‘‘Hale 1973; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. and : Louisiana’s National Democrats.’’ Louisiana History 35 (Fall 1994): 389-402. BOEHNER, John Andrew, a Representative from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, November 17, BOGGS, James Caleb, a Representative and a Senator 1949; B.S., Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1977; busi- from Delaware; born in Cheswold, Kent County, Del., May nessman; business executive; Union Township, Ohio, board 15, 1909; attended the rural schools; graduated from the of trustees, 1981 and president, 1984; member of the Ohio University of Delaware at Newark in 1931 and from George- state house of representatives, 1985-1990; elected as a Re- town University Law School, Washington, D.C., in 1937; publican to the One Hundred Second and to the six suc- admitted to the bar in 1938 and commenced practice in ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1991-present); House Repub- Dover, Del; served during the Second World War in the lican Conference Chairman, 1995-1999; chair, Committee on United States Army 1941-1946; deputy judge of the family Education and the Workforce (One Hundred Seventh and court of New Castle County, Del., 1946; elected as a Repub- One Hundred Eighth Congresses). lican to the Eightieth, Eighty-first, and Eighty-second Con- gresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1953); was not a can- BOEN, Haldor Erickson, a Representative from Min- didate for renomination in 1952 to the Eighty-third Con- nesota; born in Sondre Aurdal, Valders, Norway, January gress; Governor of Delaware from January 1953, until his 2, 1851; immigrated to the United States in 1868 and settled resignation December 30, 1960; elected as a Republican to in Mower County, Minn.; attended the St. Cloud Normal the United States Senate in 1960; reelected in 1966 and School in 1869 and 1870; located near Fergus Falls, Ottertail served from January 3, 1961, to January 3, 1973; unsuccess- County, January 1, 1871; employed in the auditor’s office ful candidate for reelection in 1972; practiced law in Wil- in 1872, computing the first taxes levied in Ottertail County; mington, Del.; was a resident of Wilmington, Del., until his taught in the common schools of that county 1874-1879; death on March 26, 1993; interment in Old Presbyterian justice of the peace 1875-1900; elected county commissioner Church Cemetery, Dover. in 1880; register of deeds 1888-1892; elected as a Populist to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); BOGGS, Thomas Hale, Sr. (husband of Corinne Clai- unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty- borne Boggs), a Representative from Louisiana; born in Long fourth Congress; editor of the Fergus Falls Globe; resumed Beach, Harrison County, Miss., February 15, 1914; attended agricultural pursuits in Ottertail County, Minn.; died in the public and parochial schools of Jefferson Parish, La.; Aurdal Township, Ottertail County, Minn., July 23, 1912; was graduated from Tulane University, New Orleans, La., interment in Aurdal Cemetery, near Fergus Falls, Minn. in 1935 and from the law department of the same university 674 Biographical Directory

in 1937; was admitted to the bar in 1937 and commenced trict of Sheldon 1900-1912; appointed judge of the district practice in New Orleans, La.; elected as a Democrat to the court of the fourth judicial district of Iowa January 1, 1913; Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941-January 3, on a division of this district became judge of the twenty- 1943); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1942; re- first judicial district of the State and in 1914 was elected sumed the practice of law in New Orleans, La.; enlisted for a term of four years, which position he resigned on in the United States Naval Reserve in November 1943; was March 31, 1918, to become a candidate for the Republican commissioned an ensign and attached to the nomination for Congress; elected as a Republican to the Naval Command and the United States Maritime Service Sixty-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March until separated in January 1946; again elected as a Demo- 4, 1919-March 3, 1929); one of the managers appointed by crat to the Eightieth and to the thirteen succeeding Con- the House of Representatives in 1926 to conduct the im- gresses; chairman, Special Committee on Campaign Expend- peachment proceedings against George W. English, judge itures (Eighty-second Congress); majority whip (Eighty-sev- of the United States District Court for the Eastern District enth through Ninety-first Congresses), majority leader of Illinois; was not a candidate for renomination in 1928; (Ninety-second Congress); disappeared while on a campaign died in Sheldon, Iowa, May 31, 1932; interment in Eastlawn flight from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska, October 16, 1972; Cemetery. served from January 3, 1947, until January 3, 1973, when he was presumed dead pursuant to House Resolution 1, BOILEAU, Gerald John, a Representative from Wis- Ninety-third Congress. consin; born in Woodruff, Oneida County, Wis., January 15, Bibliography: Balias, Scott E. ‘’The Courage of His Convictions: Hale 1900; moved to Minocqua, Oneida County, Wis., in 1909; Boggs and Civil Rights.’’ Ph.D. diss., Tulane University, 1993; Kirn, Doro- attended the public and high schools; during the First World thy Nelson. ‘‘Hale Boggs: A Southern Spokesman for the Democratic War enlisted in the United States Army on February 25, Party.’’ Ph.D. diss., Louisiana State University, 1980. 1918, as a private in the Eleventh Field Artillery, Battery D, and was honorably discharged as a corporal on July 16, BOGY, Lewis Vital, a Senator from Missouri; born in 1919, having served twelve months overseas; was graduated Ste. Genevieve, Mo., April 9, 1813; attended the public from the law department of Marquette University, Mil- schools; employed as clerk in a mercantile establishment; waukee, Wis., LL.B., 1923; was admitted to the bar the studied law in Illinois; graduated from Transylvania Univer- same year and commenced practice in Wausau, Marathon sity, Lexington, Ky., in 1835 and commenced practice in County, Wis.; served as district attorney of Marathon Coun- St. Louis; served in the ; member of the ty, Wis., 1926-1931; delegate to the Republican National board of aldermen of St. Louis in 1838; member, State house Convention in 1928; elected as a Republican to the Seventy- of representatives 1840-1841, 1854-1855; Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1867 and 1868; president of the city council second and Seventy-third Congresses and as a Progressive of St. Louis in 1872; one of the founders of the St. Louis to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (March Iron Mountain Railway, acting as president for two years; 4, 1931-January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelec- elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and tion in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress and for election served from March 4, 1873, until his death in St. Louis, in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress; resumed the prac- Mo., September 20, 1877; interment in Calvary Cemetery. tice of law; elected circuit judge of the sixteenth judicial Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- circuit of Wisconsin in 1942; reelected in 1945, 1951, 1957, ography; Bogy, Lewis Vital. A Common Man. New York: P.F. Collier, and again in 1963 for a six-year term; retired in 1970; ap- 1893; Bogy, Lewis Vital. In Office: A Story of Washington Life and Society. pointed to serve as temporary circuit judge in Milwaukee Chicago: F.J. Schulte Co., 1891; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses for County in 1970, for an unexpired term ending in 1974; re- Lewis Bogy. 45th Cong., 2nd sess., 1877-1878. Washington, D.C.: Govern- sided in Wausau, Wis., until his death January 30, 1981; ment Printing Office, 1878. interment in Restlawn Memorial Park. Bibliography: Lorence, James J. Gerald J. Boileau and the Progressive- BOHN, Frank Probasco, a Representative from Michi- Farmer-Labor Alliance: Politics of the New Deal. Columbia: University of gan; born in Charlottesville, Hancock County, Ind., July 14, Missouri Press, 1993. 1866; attended public high school; attended the Danville Normal College, Danville, Ind.; graduated from the Medical BOKEE, David Alexander, a Representative from New College of Indiana, Indianapolis, Ind., 1890; banker; village York; born in New York City, October 6, 1805; attended president of Newberry, Mich., 1904-1919; member of the the public schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits; studied Newberry School Board, Newberry, Mich., 1908-1914; mem- law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; president of ber of the Michigan state senate, 1923-1926; elected as a the Brooklyn Board of Aldermen 1840-1843 and 1845-1848; Republican to the Seventieth and to the two succeeding Con- member of the State senate 1846-1849; trustee of the New gresses (March 4, 1927-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful can- York Life Insurance Co., 1848-1860; elected as a Whig to didate for reelection to the Seventy-third Congress in 1932; the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); member of the Michigan State Hospital Commission, 1935- appointed by President Fillmore as naval officer of customs 1937; died on June 1, 1944, in Newberry, Mich.; interment of the port of New York and served from 1851 to 1853; in Forest Home Cemetery. engaged as a shipping merchant; died in Washington, D.C., March 15, 1860; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brook- BOIES, William Dayton, a Representative from Iowa; lyn, N.Y. born on a farm in Boone County, Ill., January 3, 1857; moved with his parents to Buchanan County, Iowa, in 1873 BOLAND, Edward Patrick, a Representative from Mas- and settled near Quasqueton; attended country schools and sachusetts; born in Springfield, Hampden County, Mass., the public schools of Belvidere, Ill.; was graduated in law October 1, 1911; graduated from Central High School, from the State University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1880; Springfield, Mass., 1928; attended Bay Path Institute, Long- was admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice meadow, Mass.; attended Boston College Law School, Bos- in Sanborn, O’Brien County, Iowa; moved to Sheldon, Iowa, ton, Mass.; United States Army, 1942-1946; member of the in 1887 and continued the practice of law; unsuccessful can- Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1934-1940; didate for election as judge of the district court in 1890; register of deeds for Hampden County, Mass., 1941-1952; member of the school board of the independent school dis- elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the seven- Biographies 675

teen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, of the Eleventh Ohio District and secretary of the Repub- 1989); chairman, Select Committee on Intelligence (Ninety- lican city committee of Toledo in 1894; chairman of the fifth through Ninety-eighth Congresses); was not a candidate congressional committee of the Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania for renomination to the One Hundred First Congress in District and secretary of the Pennsylvania Republican 1988; died on November 4, 2001, in Springfield, Mass.; inter- League of Clubs in 1896; superintendent of the press depart- ment in St. Michael’s Cemetery, Springfield, Mass. ment of the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo, N.Y., in 1901; managing editor of the Buffalo (N.Y.) Enquirer in BOLAND, Patrick Joseph (husband of Veronica G. Bo- 1902 and 1903; superintendent of graphic arts of the St. land), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Scran- Louis Exposition 1903-1905; director of publicity of the ton, Lackawanna County, Pa., January 6, 1880; attended Jamestown Exposition in 1907; engaged as a special writer the parochial schools and St. Thomas College, Scranton, Pa.; and also in private business, including the brokerage busi- began work as a carpenter; member of the firm of Boland ness, in Atlanta, Ga., 1907-1919; moved to Janesville, Wis., Brothers, general building contractors; also associated with in 1920 and again engaged as a newspaper editor until a sewer and paving contract company; member of the city elected to Congress; delegate to the Republican National council of Scranton, Pa., 1905-1906; served on the school Convention in 1928; elected as a Republican to the Seventy- board of Scranton 1907-1909; county commissioner of Lacka- sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses and served from Jan- wanna County, Pa., 1915-1919; elected as a Democrat to uary 3, 1939, until his death in Washington, D.C., July the Seventy-second and to the five succeeding Congresses 8, 1941; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Janesville, Wis. and served from March 4, 1931, until his death in Scranton, Pa., May 18, 1942; majority whip (Seventy-fourth through BOLLING, Richard Walker (great-great-grandson of Seventy-seventh Congresses); interment in Cathedral Ceme- John Williams Walker and great-great-nephew of Percy tery. Walker), a Representative from Missouri; born in New York City, May 17, 1916; attended grade schools and Phillips BOLAND, Veronica Grace (wife of Patrick J. Boland), Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; at the age of fifteen, upon a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Scranton, his father’s death, returned to his home in Huntsville, Ala.; Lackawanna County, Pa., March 18, 1899; attended the pub- B.A., 1937, M.A., 1939, University of the South, Sewanee, lic schools and Scranton Technical High School; elected as Tenn.; graduate studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress, by special elec- Tenn., 1939-1940; taught at Sewanee Military Academy in tion, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, 1938 and 1939; served as assistant to the head of the De- United States Representative Patrick J. Boland (November partment of Education, Florence State Teachers College, in 3, 1942-January 3, 1943); was not a candidate for reelection Alabama, in 1940; educational administrator by profession; to the Seventy-eighth Congress; died on June 19, 1982, in entered the United States Army as a private in April 1941, Scranton, Pa.; interment in Cathedral Cemetery. and served until discharged as a lieutenant colonel in July 1946, with four years’ overseas service in , New BOLES, Thomas, a Representative from Arkansas; born Guinea, Philippines, and in Japan as assistant to chief of near Clarksville, Johnson County, Ark., July 16, 1837; at- staff to General MacArthur; awarded the Legion of Merit tended the common schools; taught school for several years; and Bronze Star Medal; veterans’ adviser at the University sheriff of Yell County in 1858; deputy clerk of the circuit of Kansas City in 1946 and 1947; elected as a Democrat court of Yell County in 1859 and 1860; studied law; was to the Eighty-first and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses admitted to the bar in 1860 and commenced practice in (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1983); chairman, Select Com- Danville, Ark.; during the Civil War served as captain of mittee on Committees of the House (Ninety-third Congress), Company E, Third Regiment, Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry; Joint Economic Committee (Ninety-fifth Congress); Com- judge of the fourth judicial circuit from 1865 to April 20, mittee on Rules (Ninety-sixth and Ninety-seventh Con- 1868, when he resigned; upon the readmission of Arkansas gresses); was not a candidate for reelection in 1982 to the to representation was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Ninety-eighth Congress; was a resident of Washington, D.C., Congress; reelected to the Forty-first Congress and served until his death there on April 21, 1991. from June 22, 1868, until March 3, 1871; successfully con- Bibliography: Bolling, Richard, and John Bowles. America’s Competitive tested the election of to the Forty-second Edge: How to Get Our Country Moving Again. New York: McGraw-Hill Congress and served from February 9, 1872, until March Bok Company, Inc., 1982; Lowe, David E. ‘‘The Bolling Committee and the 3, 1873; was not a candidate for renomination in 1872; re- Politics of Reorganization.’’ Capitol Studies 6 (Spring 1978): 39-61. sumed the practice of law at Dardanelle, Ark.; served many years as school director and alderman; appointed receiver BOLTON, Chester Castle (husband of Frances P. Bolton of the land office at Dardanelle by President Hayes in Feb- and father of Oliver P. Bolton), a Representative from Ohio; ruary 1878; United States marshal for the western district born in Cleveland, Ohio, September 5, 1882; attended the of Arkansas 1881-1889; delegate to every Republican State public schools; was graduated from the University School, convention from the organization of the party until his Cleveland, Ohio, in 1901 and from Harvard University in death; clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the 1905; employed in the steel industry in Cleveland 1905- Eighth Judicial Circuit from September 1897 until his death 1917; member of the Ohio National Guard 1905-1915; com- in Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Ark., March 13, 1905; missioned a captain in the Reserve Corps and ordered into interment in Brealey Cemetery, Dardanelle, Ark. active service in March 1917; detailed first to the War In- dustries Board, then served as aide to the Assistant Sec- BOLLES, Stephen, a Representative from Wisconsin; retary of War; transferred to the General Staff in 1917; born in Springboro, Crawford County, Pa., June 25, 1866; promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and detailed to attended the public schools; was graduated from the State the One Hundred and First Division as Assistant Chief of Normal School of Pennsylvania at Slippery Rock, Pa., in Staff; discharged in December 1918; returned to Cleveland, 1888 and from the law department of Milton College, Milton, Ohio, and served as a director of several large business Wis.; served as reporter correspondent, managing editor, and corporations; also engaged in raising and breeding cattle; publisher of newspapers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New member of the Lyndhurst Village Council 1918-1921; served York, 1893-1901; chairman of the congressional committee in the State senate 1923-1928, serving as president pro tem- 676 Biographical Directory

pore in 1927 and 1928; delegate to the Republican National tion to the Eighty-second Congress in 1950; director, Balti- Convention in 1928; elected as a Republican to the Seventy- more County Civil Defense, 1951; died on November 22, first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1929- 1964, in Baltimore, Md.; interment in Mount Maria Ceme- January 3, 1937); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in tery, Towson, Md. 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress; served as chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee in 1934 BOND, Charles Grosvenor (nephew of Charles Henry and 1936; resumed his former business pursuits; elected Grosvenor), a Representative from New York; born in Co- to the Seventy-sixth Congress and served from January 3, lumbus, Franklin County, Ohio, May 29, 1877; attended the 1939, until his death in Cleveland, Ohio, October 29, 1939; public schools; was graduated from the law department of interment in Lake View Cemetery. Ohio State University at Columbus in 1899; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced the practice of BOLTON, Frances Payne (wife of Chester C. Bolton, law in Columbus, Ohio; moved to New York City in 1903 granddaughter of Henry B. Payne, and mother of Oliver and continued the practice of his profession; elected as a P. Bolton), a Representative from Ohio; born Francis Payne Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921- Bingham, March 29, 1885, in Cleveland, Ohio; attended pri- March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 vate schools in United States and France; active in public to the Sixty-eighth Congress; resumed the practice of law; health, nursing education and other social service, edu- also interested in banking; unsuccessful Republican can- cation, and philanthropic work; vice regent for Ohio of the didate for president of the borough of Brooklyn in 1926; Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association; member of the Repub- delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1936; lican State central committee, 1937-1940; delegate to Repub- member of the New York City Alcoholic Beverage Control lican National Conventions and member of Resolutions Com- Board, 1934-1970, chairman, 1960-1970; retired; died in mittee, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968; first woman appointed Bound Brook, N.J., January 10, 1974; cremated; ashes in- as congressional delegate to United Nations General Assem- terred at West Union Cemetery, Athens, Ohio. bly, 1953; elected as a Republican by special election, Feb- BOND, Christopher Samuel (Kit), a Senator from Mis- ruary 27, 1940, to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill the souri; born in St. Louis, Mo., March 6, 1939; attended the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Chester C. public schools; graduated, Princeton University 1960; grad- Bolton; reelected to the fourteen succeeding Congresses and uated, University of Virginia Law School 1963; practiced served from February 27, 1940, to January 3, 1969; unsuc- law in Washington, D.C., and returned to Missouri in 1967; cessful candidate for reelection in 1968 to the Ninety-first assistant attorney general of Missouri 1969; State auditor Congress; resided in Lyndhurst, Ohio, where she died March 1970; Governor of Missouri 1973-1977, 1980-1985; elected 9, 1977; interment in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio. as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1986; re- Bibliography: Loth, David. A Long Way Forward: The Biography of elected in 1992, 1998 and 2004 for the term ending January Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton. New York: Longmans, Green, 1957. 3, 2011; chair, Committee on Small Business and Entrepre- BOLTON, Oliver Payne (son of Chester Castle Bolton neurship (1995-January 3, 2001; January 20, 2001-June 6, and Frances Payne Bolton and great-grandson of Henry B. 2001). Payne), a Representative from Ohio; born in Cleveland, BOND, Shadrack, a Delegate from ; Ohio, February 22, 1917; graduated from Milton (Mass.) born in Frederick, Md., November 24, 1773; received a com- Academy in 1935, Harvard College in 1939, and Western mon-school education; moved to Kaskaskia, Ill. (then Indiana Reserve University Law School in 1947; was admitted to Territory), in 1794 and engaged in agricultural pursuits; the bar in 1947 and began practice in Cleveland, Ohio; mem- member of the legislative council of Indiana Territory 1805- ber of the One Hundred and Seventieth Cavalry, Ohio Na- 1808; when Illinois Territory was formed was elected a Dele- tional Guard, 1939-1941; spent five years in the service gate on October 10, 1812, and served from December 3, 1941-1946, one of which was in the Pacific Theater on the 1812, to August 2, 1813; served as receiver of public moneys staff of C-2 section of Fifth Amphibious Corps; chairman in the general land office at Kaskaskia, Ill., 1814-1818; upon of Ohio Young Republicans in 1948 and 1949; Young Repub- the admission of Illinois as a State into the Union was licans national committeeman from Ohio in 1950 and 1951; elected its first Governor and served from 1818 to 1822; publisher of Lake County News Herald, Willoughby, Ohio, appointed register of the land office for the district of and the Daily Reporter, Dover, Ohio, 1952-1963; elected as Kaskaskia on January 28, 1823, and served until his death a Republican to the Eighty-third and to the Eighty-fourth in Kaskaskia, Randolph County, Ill., April 12, 1832; inter- Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1957); was not a ment in Evergreen Cemetery, Chester, Randolph County, candidate for renomination in 1956; director of commerce, Ill. State of Ohio, from February 4 to August 2, 1957; elected to the Eighty-eighth Congress (January 3, 1963-January 3, BOND, William Key, a Representative from Ohio; born 1965); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1964 to the in St. Marys County, Md., October 2, 1792; attended the Eighty-ninth Congress; partner, Prescott, Merrill, Turben & schools at Litchfield, Conn., where he also studied law at Co., investment bankers, 1965-1972; died December 13, the Litchfield Law School; moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1972, in Palm Beach, Fla.; interment in Lake View Ceme- 1812; was admitted to the bar in 1813 and commenced prac- tery, Cleveland, Ohio. tice in Chillicothe; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1835- BOLTON, William P., a Representative from Maryland; March 3, 1841); chairman, Committee on Public Expendi- born near Whiteford, Harford County, Md., July 2, 1885; tures (Twenty-sixth Congress); declined to be a candidate attended the public schools and St. Francis Parochial School for renomination in 1840; moved to Cincinnati in 1841 and in Baltimore County, Md.; graduated from the Baltimore continued the practice of his profession; appointed surveyor University Law School, Baltimore, Md., 1909; lawyer, pri- of the port of Cincinnati by President Fillmore May 2, 1849, vate practice; trial magistrate, Towson, Md., 1941-1946; and served until September 28, 1853; became interested in member of the Maryland state senate, 1946-1948; elected the development of railroads in the west; died in Cincinnati, as a Democrat to the Eighty-first Congress (January 3, 1949- Ohio, February 17, 1864; interment in Spring Grove Ceme- January 3, 1951); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelec- tery. 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BONE, Homer Truett, a Senator from Washington; born Springs, N.C., August 27, 1890; interment in Elmwood Cem- in Franklin, Johnson County, Ind., January 25, 1883; at- etery, Columbia, S.C. tended the public schools; employed in the postal service and in the accounting and credit department of a furniture BONILLA, Henry, a Representative from Texas; born company; graduated from the Tacoma (Wash.) Law School in San Antonio, Bexar County, Tex., January 2, 1954; grad- in 1911; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced uated from South San Antonio High School, San Antonio, practice in Tacoma, Wash.; special deputy prosecuting attor- Tex., 1972; B.J., University of Texas, Austin, Tex., 1976; ney of Pierce County, Wash., 1912; corporation counsel of journalist; broadcasting executive; elected as a Republican the port of Tacoma, Wash., 1918-1932; member, State house to the One Hundred Third and to the five succeeding Con- of representatives 1923-1924; unsuccessful candidate for the gresses (January 3, 1993-present). Republican nomination in 1928 to the Seventy-first Con- BONIN, Edward John, a Representative from Pennsyl- gress; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate vania; born in Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pa., December in 1932; reelected in 1938 and served from March 4, 1933, 23, 1904; attended the parochial and public schools of Hazle- until his resignation on November 13, 1944; chairman, Com- ton; served in the United States Navy 1922-1926; graduated mittee on Patents (Seventy-sixth through Seventy-eighth from Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa., in 1929, Dickinson Congresses); appointed a judge of the United States Circuit College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1933, and Temple University, Phila- Court of Appeals for the Ninth Judicial Circuit 1944-1956; delphia, Pa., in 1937; studied law; was admitted to the bar resumed the practice of law in San Francisco and sat on in February 1938 and began practice in Hazleton, Pa.; the bench occasionally until 1968; returned to Tacoma, served in the United States Army 1942-1944; resumed law Wash., where he died on March 11, 1970; cremated and practice; assistant district attorney of Luzerne County 1949- ashes interred in Oakwood Cemetery. 1952; mayor of Hazleton, Pa., 1951-1953; elected as a Repub- BONER, William Hill, a Representative from Tennessee; lican to the Eighty-third Congress (January 3, 1953-January born in Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., February 14, 3, 1955); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1945; attended Warner public school, 1953-1959; graduated, 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress; assistant to Philadel- East Nashville Senior High School, 1963; B.S., Middle Ten- phia regional director, Post Office Department, from Feb- nessee State University, Murfreesboro, 1967; M.A., George ruary 1955 to March 1963; general attorney, Post Office Peabody College, Nashville, 1969; served in the Tennessee Department, Washington, D.C., from March 1963 to Decem- house of representatives, 1970-1972, 1974-1976; engaged in ber 1966; resumed the practice of law; was a resident of banking profession, 1972-1976; law clerk, 1976-1977; served Hazleton, Pa., until his death on December 20, 1990. in Tennessee State senate, 1976-1978; J.D., YMCA Night BONIOR, David Edward, a Representative from Michi- Law School, Nashville, 1978; elected as a Democrat to the gan; born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., June 6, 1945; Ninety-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses and graduated from Notre Dame High School, Pontiac, Mich., served from January 3, 1979, until his resignation on Octo- 1963; B.A., University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1967; M.A., Chap- ber 5, 1987; elected mayor of Nashville, Tenn., on September man College, Orange, Calif., 1972; United States Air Force, 22, 1987, for a four-year term beginning October 5, 1987; 1968-1972; member of the Michigan state house of rep- is a resident of Nashville, Tenn. resentatives, 1973-1977; delegate to the Michigan state BONHAM, Milledge Luke, a Representative from South Democratic conventions, 1972-1977; elected as a Democrat Carolina; born near Red Bank (now Saluda), Edgefield Dis- to the Ninety-fifth and to the twelve succeeding Congresses trict, S.C., December 25, 1813; attended private schools in (January 3, 1977-January 3, 2003); majority whip (One Hun- Edgefield District and at Abbeville, S.C.; was graduated dred Second and One Hundred Third Congresses); minority from South Carolina College (now the University of South whip (One Hundred Fourth through One Hundred Seventh Carolina) at Columbia in 1834; studied law; was admitted Congresses); not a candidate for reelection to the One Hun- to the bar and commenced practice in Edgefield in 1837; dred Eighth Congress in 2002, but was an unsuccessful can- served as major and adjutant general of the South Carolina didate for nomination for Governor of Michigan. Brigade in the Seminole War in Florida in 1836; during BONKER, Don Leroy, a Representative from Wash- the Mexican War was lieutenant colonel and colonel of the ington; born in Denver, Colo., March 7, 1937; attended the Twelfth Regiment, United States Infantry; major general public schools in Westminister, Colo.; A.A., Clark College, of the South Carolina Militia; member of the State house Vancouver, Wash., 1962; B.A., Lewis and Clark College, of representatives 1840-1843; solicitor of the southern circuit Portland, Oreg., 1964; graduate work, American University, of South Carolina 1848-1857; elected as a Democrat to the Washington, D.C., 1964; served in United States Coast Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses and served from Guard, first class yeoman, 1955-1959; Clark County auditor, March 4, 1857, until his retirement on December 21, 1860; Vancouver, Wash., 1966-1974; aide to United States Senator appointed major general and commander of the Army of , 1964-1965; unsuccessful candidate for South Carolina by Gov. F. W. Pickens in February 1861; Washington secretary of state, 1972; delegate to Washington appointed brigadier general in the Confederate Army April State Democratic conventions, 1968-1970; elected as a Demo- 19, 1861; resigned his commission January 27, 1862, to enter crat to the Ninety-fourth and to the six succeeding Con- the Confederate Congress; elected Governor of South Caro- gresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1989); was not a can- lina in December 1862 and served until December 1864; didate in 1988 for reelection to the United States House appointed brigadier general of Cavalry in the Confederate of Representatives, but was an unsuccessful candidate for Army in February 1865; again a member of the State house nomination to the United States Senate; unsuccessful can- of representatives 1865-1866; delegate to the Democratic Na- didate in 1992 for nomination to the United States Senate; tional Convention in 1868; member of the South Carolina is a resident of Bainbridge Island, Wash. taxpayers’ convention in 1871 and 1874; resumed the prac- tice of law in Edgefield, engaged in planting, and also con- BONNER, Herbert Covington, a Representative from ducted an insurance business in Edgefield, S.C., and At- North Carolina; born in Washington, Beaufort County, N.C., lanta, Ga., 1865-1878; appointed State railroad commis- May 16, 1891; graduated from Graham School, Warrenton, sioner in 1878 and served until his death at White Sulphur N.C.; United States Army during World War I; salesman; 678 Biographical Directory

farmer; secretary to United States Representative Lindsay BOODY, Azariah, a Representative from New York; born C. Warren, 1924-1940; elected simultaneously as a Democrat in Stanstead County, Province of Quebec, Canada, April 21, to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses to fill 1815; moved to Massachusetts with his parents, who settled the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Rep- in Lowell; attended the common schools; moved to Rochester, resentative Lindsay C. Warren; reelected to the Seventy- N.Y., in 1850 and engaged in agricultural pursuits; trustee eighth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (November of the University of Rochester 1853-1865; elected as a Whig 5, 1940-November 7, 1965); chair, Committee on Election to the Thirty-third Congress and served from March 4 until of President, Vice President, and Representatives in Con- his resignation in October 1853, before the convening of gress (Seventy-ninth Congress); chair, Committee on Mer- Congress; moved to New York City in 1855 and engaged chant Marine and Fisheries (Eighty-fourth through Eighty- in the construction of railroads, canals, and bridges; served ninth Congresses); died on November 7, 1965, in Wash- as president of the Wabash Railroad Co.; retired from active ington, D.C.; interment in Oakdale Cemetery, Washington, business pursuits in 1875, retaining his residence in New N.C. York City, where he died on November 18, 1885; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y. BONNER, Jr., Josiah Robins (Jo), a Representative from Alabama; born in Selma, Dallas County, Ala., Novem- BOODY, David Augustus, a Representative from New ber 19, 1959; B.A., University of Alabama, 1982; attended York; born in Jackson, Waldo County, Maine, August 13, University of Alabama Law School; staff, United States Rep- 1837; attended the common schools and Phillips Academy, resentative Sonny Callahan of Alabama, 1985-2002; elected Andover, Mass.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in as a Republican to the One Hundred Eighth Congress (Janu- 1860 at Belfast, Maine, and commenced practice in Camden, ary 3, 2003-present). Maine; moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1862 and engaged in the banking and brokerage business; unsuccessful candidate BONO, Mary (wife of Sonny Bono), a Representative from for election to the Forty-eighth Congress in 1882; delegate California; born Mary Whitaker in Cleveland, Cuyahoga to the Democratic National Conventions in 1884 and 1892; County, Ohio, October 24, 1961; B.A., University of Southern president of Berkeley Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1886-1922; California, Los Angeles, Calif.; restaurant business manager; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress and personal fitness instructor; board of the Palm Springs, Calif., served until his resignation on October 13, 1891 (March International Film Festival; elected as a Republican to the 4, 1891-October 13, 1891); mayor of Brooklyn, 1892 and One Hundred Fifth Congress by special election to fill the 1893; resumed his former banking and brokerage business; vacancy caused by the death of her husband, United States served as president of the board of trustees of the Brooklyn Representative Sonny Bono, reelected to the three suc- Public Library, 1897 until his death; was a member of the ceeding Congresses (April 7, 1998-present). New York Stock Exchange but retired in 1926, and resided in Brooklyn, N.Y., until his death there on January 20, BONO, Sonny (husband of Mary Bono), a Representative 1930; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. from California; born in Detroit, Mich., February 16, 1935; graduated Inglewood High School; restaurateur, entertainer, BOOHER, Charles Ferris, a Representative from Mis- songwriter, and producer; mayor of Palm Springs, Calif., souri; born on a farm near East Groveland, Livingston Coun- 1988-1992; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred ty, N.Y., January 31, 1848; attended the common schools Fourth and One Hundred Fifth Congresses (January 3, and the Geneseo Academy, Geneseo, N.Y.; taught school and 1995-January 3, 1999) and served from January 3, 1995, studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1871 and com- until his death on January 5, 1998, in a skiing accident menced practice in Rochester, Mo.; moved to Savannah, Mo., in 1875, having been appointed prosecuting attorney of An- in Lake Tahoe, Calif. drew County, in which capacity he served until 1877, and BONYNGE, Robert William, a Representative from Col- again from 1883 to 1885; resumed the practice of law in orado; born in New York City September 8, 1863; attended Savannah, Mo., and also, in 1888, engaged in the loan and the public schools; was graduated from the College of the real estate business; mayor of Savannah, Mo., 1886-1890; City of New York in 1882 and from the law department elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth Congress to fill the of Columbia College, New York City, in 1885; was admitted vacancy caused by the death of James N. Burnes and served to the bar in 1885 and commenced practice in New York from (February 19, 1889-March 3, 1889); was not a can- City; moved to Denver, Colo., in 1888 and continued the didate for election for the full term; elected to the Sixtieth practice of law; member of the State house of representatives and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1907-Janu- in 1893 and 1894; unsuccessful candidate for election in ary 21, 1921); was not a candidate for renomination in 1920; 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress; contested the election died on January 21, 1921, in Savannah, Andrew County, to the Fifty-eighth Congress of John F. Shafroth, who in Mo.; interment in City Cemetery. an address before the House of Representatives conceded BOOKER, George William, a Representative from Vir- his defeat and withdrew from the contest; reelected as a ginia; born near Stuart, Patrick County, Va., December 5, Republican to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses and 1821; attended the public schools; taught school; studied served from February 16, 1904, until March 3, 1909; unsuc- law; was admitted to the bar in 1846 and commenced prac- cessful candidate for reelection in 1908 to the Sixty-first tice in Patrick County; elected a justice of the peace in Congress; member of the National Monetary Commission Henry County; member and presiding justice of the county 1908-1912; resumed the practice of law in Denver, Colo.; court from August 1856 to February 1868; member of the moved to New York City in November 1912 and continued State house of delegates in 1865-1867 and 1871-1873; nomi- the practice of law; chief counsel of the New York State nated by the Republican Party and elected attorney general Industrial Commission 1916-1918; appointed United States in 1868, but resigned in 1869; upon the readmission of the agent before the Mixed Claims Commission (United States State of Virginia to representation was elected as a Conserv- and Germany) in 1923 and before the Tripartite Claims ative to the Forty-first Congress and served from January Commission (United States, Austria, and Hungary) in 1927; 26, 1870, to March 3, 1871; resumed the practice of law died in New York City, September 22, 1939; interment in in Martinsville, Henry County, Va., where he died June Woodlawn Cemetery. 4, 1883; interment in the family cemetery. 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BOON, Ratliff, a Representative from Indiana; born in of the county court in 1834; member of the State house Franklin County, N.C., January 18, 1781; moved with his of representatives in 1838; elected as a Free-Soiler to the parents to Warren County, Ky.; attended the public schools; Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); unsuc- moved to Danville, Ky., and learned the gunsmith’s trade; cessful candidate for reelection in 1850 to the Thirty-second moved to what is now Boon Township, Warrick County, Congress; resumed his former manufacturing pursuits; died Ind., in 1809; on the organization of Warrick County was in Meriden, New Haven County, Conn., April 30, 1870; in- appointed its first treasurer in 1813; member of the State terment in East Cemetery. house of representatives in 1816 and 1817; served in the State senate in 1818; elected Lieutenant Governor of Indi- BOOTHMAN, Melvin Morella, a Representative from ana in 1819; upon the resignation of Jonathan Jennings Ohio; born near Bryan, Williams County, Ohio, October 16, became Governor and served from September 12 to Decem- 1846; attended the public schools; engaged in agricultural ber 5, 1822; reelected Lieutenant Governor in August 1822 pursuits; enlisted in Company H, Thirty-eighth Regiment, and served until January 30, 1824, when he resigned to Ohio Volunteer Infantry, January 4, 1864; served through become a candidate for Congress; elected to the Nineteenth the Atlanta campaign; was graduated from the law depart- Congress (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1827); unsuccessful can- ment of Michigan University at Ann Arbor in 1871; was didate for reelection in 1826 to the Twentieth Congress; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Bryan, Ohio; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through Twenty- elected treasurer of Williams County in 1871 and reelected fourth Congresses and as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth in 1873; elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty- Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1839); chairman, Com- first Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); was not mittee on Public Lands (Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth a candidate for renomination in 1890; resumed the practice Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for election to the of law in Bryan, Ohio, and died there March 5, 1904; inter- United States Senate in 1836; moved to Pike County, Mo., ment in Fountain City Cemetery. in 1839; died in Louisiana, Mo., on November 20, 1844; BOOZE, William Samuel, a Representative from Mary- interment in Riverview Cemetery. land; born in Baltimore, Md., January 9, 1862; attended BOONE, Andrew Rechmond, a Representative from the public schools; was graduated from Baltimore City Col- Kentucky; born in Davidson County, Tenn., April 4, 1831; lege in 1879 and afterwards attended the University of moved with his parents to Mayfield, Graves County, Ky., Maryland School of Medicine; was graduated in medicine in 1833; attended the public schools; studied law; was admit- from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York ted to the bar in 1852 and practiced in Mayfield; elected City, in 1882 and practiced his profession in Baltimore until judge of the Graves County court in 1854; reelected in 1858 1896, when he was elected to Congress; unsuccessfully con- and served until 1861, when he resigned; member of the tested the election of Harry Welles Rusk to the Fifty-fourth State house of representatives in 1861; circuit judge for the Congress; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress first judicial district of Kentucky 1868-1874; elected as a (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); was not a candidate for Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses renomination in 1898; engaged in banking and in the bro- (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); was not a candidate for kerage business in Baltimore, Md., until 1915, when he reelection in 1878; chairman of the State railroad commis- again engaged in the practice of medicine; delegate to the sion 1882-1886; died in Mayfield, Ky., January 26, 1886; Republican National Conventions in 1904 and 1908; died interment in Mayfield Cemetery. in Wilmington, Del., December 6, 1933, while en route to his home from a trip to South America; interment in BOOTH, Newton, a Senator from California; born in Loudoun Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. Salem, Washington County, Ind., December 30, 1825; at- tended the common schools, and was graduated from Asbury BOOZMAN, John, a Representative from Arkansas; born (later DePauw) University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1846; stud- in Ark., December 10, 1950; graduated from Northside High ied law in Terre Haute, Ind.; admitted to the bar in 1850; School, Fort Smith, Ark.; attended the University of Arkan- moved the same year to California, where he temporarily sas, Little Rock, Ark., 1969-1972; Southern College of Op- engaged in the wholesale grocery business at Sacramento; tometry, 1977; optometrist; business owner; rancher; mem- returned to Terre Haute in 1857 and engaged in the practice ber of the Rogers, Ark., school board; elected as a Republican of law until 1860, when he returned to Sacramento, Calif., to the One Hundred Seventh Congress by special election and again engaged in mercantile pursuits; member, State to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States senate 1863; Governor of California, 1871-1874, when he Representative , reelected to the succeeding resigned, having been elected Senator; elected as an Anti- Congress (November 20, 2001-present). Monopolist to the United States Senate and served from BORAH, William Edgar, a Senator from Idaho; born March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1881; was not a candidate for on a farm near Fairfield, Wayne County, Ill., June 29, 1865; reelection in 1880; chairman, Committee on Manufacturers attended the common schools of Wayne County and South- (Forty-fifth Congress), Committee on Patents (Forty-fifth ern Illinois Academy at Enfield; attended the University Congress); engaged in the wholesale mercantile business in of Kansas at Lawrence until 1889; studied law; was admit- Sacramento, Calif., where he died on July 14, 1892; inter- ted to the bar in 1890 and commenced practice in Lyons, ment in the City Cemetery. Kans.; moved to Boise, Idaho, in 1891 and practiced law; Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Booth, Newton. New- unsuccessful candidate on the Silver Republican ticket for ton Booth of California, His Speeches and Addresses. New York: G.P. Put- nam’s Sons, 1894. election in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for nomination as United States Senator in 1903; BOOTH, Walter, a Representative from Connecticut; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1907; born in Woodbridge, Conn., December 8, 1791; attended the reelected in 1913, 1918, 1924, 1930, and again in 1936, common schools; settled in Meriden and engaged in manu- and served from March 4, 1907, until his death in Wash- facturing; colonel of the Tenth Regiment, Second Battalion ington, D.C, on January 19, 1940; chairman, Committee on of Militia, 1825-1827, brigadier general in 1827 and 1828, Education and Labor (Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-sev- and major general of the First Division 1831-1834; judge enth, and Sixty-eighth Congresses), Committee on Indian 680 Biographical Directory

Depredations (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses), newspaper published in southeastern Kentucky; county Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice judge in 1886; president of the Cumberland Valley Land (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on Interoceanic Canals Co. in 1887; president of the First National Bank of London (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses), Committee on in 1888; department commander of the Grand Army of the Foreign Relations (Sixty-eighth through Seventy-second Con- Republic in Kentucky in 1889; elected as a Republican to gresses); unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presi- the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses dential nomination in 1936; funeral services were held in and served from March 4, 1899, until his death in London, the Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in Mor- Laurel County, Ky., September 16, 1903; interment in Pine ris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Idaho. Grove Cemetery. Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- ography; Ashby, Leroy. The Spearless Leader, Senator Borah and the Pro- BOREMAN, Arthur Inghram, a Senator from West Vir- gressive Movement in the 1920’s. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, ginia; born in Waynesburg, Pa., July 24, 1823; moved to 1972; McKenna, Marian C. Borah. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Virginia with his parents, who settled in Middlebourne, Press, 1961. Tyler County, in 1827, and in Moundsville, Marshall County, in 1840; attended the public schools; studied law; was admit- BORCHERS, Charles Martin, a Representative from Il- ted to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice in Parkers- linois; born in Lockville, Fairfield County, Ohio, November burg; member, Virginia house of delegates 1855-1861; pre- 18, 1869; moved to Illinois with his parents, who settled sided over the convention of supporters of the Union of in Macon County in 1875; attended the common schools; the northwestern counties of Virginia held at Wheeling, taught school in Macon County for seven years; studied law; June 19, 1861, to form the new State of West Virginia; was admitted to the bar in 1897 and commenced practice in Decatur, Macon County, Ill.; mayor of Decatur 1909-1911; elected judge of the circuit court, nineteenth circuit of Vir- elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March ginia 1861-1863; the first Governor of West Virginia 1863- 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection 1869, when he resigned to accept the nomination as United in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice States Senator; elected as a Republican to the United States of law; again served as mayor of Decatur 1919-1923; unsuc- Senate and served from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1875; cessful Democratic candidate for Governor in 1924; died in was not a candidate for reelection in 1874; chairman, Select Decatur, Ill., December 2, 1946; interment in Frantz Ceme- Committee on the Removal of Political Disabilities (Forty- tery, Macon County, Ill. second Congress), Committee on Territories (Forty-third Congress); resumed the practice of law in Parkersburg, BORDALLO, Madeleine, a Delegate from Guam; born W.Va.; elected judge of the circuit court for the fifth judicial in Graceville, Minn., May 31, 1933; graduated from George circuit of West Virginia in 1888 and served until his death Washington High School, Mangilao, Guam, 1951; attended in Parkersburg, Wood County, W.Va., April 19, 1896; inter- St. Mary’s College, South Bend, Ind.; A.A., St. Katherine’s ment in the Odd Fellows Cemetery. College, St. Paul, Minn., 1953; member of the Guam legisla- Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Woodward, Isaiah A. ture, 1981-1982, 1987-1994; unsuccessful candidate for Gov- ‘‘Arthur Ingrahram Boreman: A Biography.’’ West Virginia History 31 (July ernor of Guam in 1990; Lieutenant Governor of Guam, 1995- 1970): 206-69; 32 (October 1970): 10-48. 2002; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Eighth BOREN, David Lyle (son of Lyle H. Boren), a Senator Congress (January 3, 2003-present). from Oklahoma; born in Washington, D.C., April 21, 1941; BORDEN, Nathaniel Briggs, a Representative from attended the public schools in Seminole, Okla. and Bethesda, Massachusetts; born in Fall River, Mass., April 15, 1801; Md.; graduated, Yale University 1963; attended Oxford Uni- attended the district school and Plainfield (Conn.) Academy; versity, Oxford, England, as a Rhodes Scholar and received organized the Pocasset Manufacturing Co., in Fall River, a graduate degree in 1965; graduated, University of Okla- Mass.; member of the State house of representatives in 1831 homa College of Law, Norman, Okla. 1968; admitted to the and 1834; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Con- Oklahoma bar in 1968 and commenced practice in Seminole; gress and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Con- captain in the Oklahoma National Guard 1968-1974; chair- gress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1839); unsuccessful Whig man, department of government, Oklahoma Baptist Univer- candidate for reelection to the Twenty-sixth Congress in sity, Shawnee, Okla., 1970-1974; member of the Oklahoma 1838; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress State house of representatives 1967-1975; Governor of Okla- (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); member of the State senate homa 1975-1977; elected as a Democrat to the United States from 1845 to 1848; served in the State house of representa- Senate in 1978; re-elected in 1985 and again in 1990 and tives in 1851; elected mayor of Fall River in 1856 and re- served from January 3, 1979 until November 15, 1994, when elected in 1857; again a member of the State house of rep- he resigned; chairman, Select Committee on Intelligence resentatives in 1864; engaged in banking and served as (One Hundredth through One Hundred Second Congresses); president of the Fall River Savings Bank and of the Fall Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress (One Hun- River Union Bank; was president also of the Fall River dred Third Congress); president, University of Oklahoma Railroad Co.; died in Fall River, Bristol County, Mass., April (1994-); is a resident of Norman, Okla. 10, 1865; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. BOREN, Lyle H. (father of David Lyle Boren), a Rep- BOREING, Vincent, a Representative from Kentucky; resentative from Oklahoma; born near Waxahachie, Ellis born near Jonesboro, Washington County, Tenn., November County, Tex., May 11, 1909; moved to Lawton, Okla., in 24, 1839; moved with his father to Laurel County, Ky., in 1917; attended the public schools; was graduated from the 1847; attended Laurel Seminary, London, Ky., and East Central College at Ada, Okla., in 1930 and from Okla- Tusculum College, Greenville, Tenn.; enlisted as a private homa Agricultural and Mechanical College at Stillwater; in the Union Army in Company A, Twenty-fourth Regiment, teacher in the schools at Wolf, Okla., 1930-1935; served as Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, November 1, 1861; for meri- a deputy procurement officer of the United States Treasury torious conduct was commissioned first lieutenant; county Department; engaged in agricultural pursuits and also was superintendent of public schools 1868-1872; established the interested in the mercantile business; author; lieutenant Mountain Echo at London, Ky., in 1875, the first Republican commander in the United States Naval Reserve; elected as Biographies 681

a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and to the four succeeding more, Baltimore, Md., 1971; stockbroker; member of the Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1947); unsuccessful Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1976-1982; candidate for renomination in 1946; resumed former mer- elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth and to the nine cantile business and agricultural pursuits; president of a succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 2003); petroleum corporation; representative of the Association of not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Eighth Western Railroads, 1954-1970; assistant to the Insurance Congress in 2002. Commissioner, State of Oklahoma; was a resident of Okla- homa City, Okla., until his death there on July 2, 1992. BORST, Peter I., a Representative from New York; born in Middleburg, Schoharie County, N.Y., April 24, 1797; at- BORLAND, Charles, Jr., a Representative from New tended the common schools; served as an officer of State York; born in Minisink, Orange County, N.Y., June 29, 1786; troops and on the staff of Gov. William C. Bouck; held var- pursued preparatory studies; was graduated from Union Col- ious local positions; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty- lege, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1811; studied law; was admitted first Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1831); served as to the bar and practiced; president of the board of trustees a member of the committee appointed by the county board of Montgomery for ten years; member of the State assembly of supervisors to oversee the building of the first county in 1820 and 1821; elected to the Seventeenth Congress to almshouse in 1838; died in Middleburg, N.Y., November 14, fill the vacancy caused by the death of Selah Tuthill and 1848; interment in the family burying ground on his estate, served from November 8, 1821, to March 3, 1823; district ‘‘The Hook,’’ in Schoharie County. attorney of Orange County 1835-1841; again a member of the State assembly, in 1836; died in Wardsbridge, N.Y., BOSCH, Albert Henry, a Representative from New York; February 23, 1852; interment in Riverside Cemetery, Mont- born in New York City October 30, 1908; attended public gomery, N.Y. schools; LL.B, School of Law, St. John’s College, 1933; was admitted to the bar in 1938 and commenced the practice BORLAND, Solon, a Senator from Arkansas; born near of law in New York City; also admitted to practice before Suffolk, Nansemond County, Va., September 21, 1808; at- the Treasury Department and the Supreme Court of the tended preparatory schools in North Carolina; studied and United States; trustee of Hamburg Savings Bank, Ridge- afterwards practiced medicine; settled in Little Rock, Ark.; wood, N.Y.; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third and served throughout the Mexican War as a major in the Ar- to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953-Decem- kansas Volunteer Cavalry; was appointed and subsequently ber 31, 1960); resigned on December 31, 1960, having been elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill elected judge of the county court of Queens and served until the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ambrose H. Sevier September 1, 1962; elected justice, supreme court of New and served from March 30, 1848, to April 11, 1853, when York State, eleventh judicial district, and served until his his resignation became effective; chairman, Committee on retirement, December 31, 1974; is a resident of Amityville, Printing (Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses), Com- N.Y. mittee on Public Lands (Thirty-third Congress); served as United States Minister to and to the other Cen- BOSCHWITZ, Rudolph Eli (Rudy), a Senator from Min- tral American Republics 1853-1854; declined an appointment nesota; born in Berlin, Germany, November 7, 1930; at- as Governor of the Territory of New Mexico; returned to tended the public schools in New Rochelle, N.Y., and The Arkansas and resumed the practice of medicine in Little Pennington School in Pennington, N.J.; attended Johns Hop- Rock until 1861; during the Civil War raised a brigade of kins University, Baltimore, Md., 1947-1949; graduated, New troops for the Confederate Army; later was appointed a brig- York University School of Commerce, New York City, 1950, adier general in the Confederate Army; died near Houston, and New York University Law School 1953; admitted to Tex., on January 1, 1864; interment in City Cemetery, Hous- the New York bar in 1954 and the Wisconsin bar in 1959, ton, Tex. and commenced practice in New York City in 1956; served Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- in the United States Army Signal Corps 1954-1955; founder, ography; Woods, James M. ‘‘Expansionism as Diplomacy: The Career of in October 1963, and chairman of Plywood Minnesota, Inc. Solon Borland in Central America 1853-1854.’’ Americas 40 (January (renamed Home Valu Interiors, Inc., 1994) 1963-; Republican 1984): 399-415. National Committeeman from Minnesota 1971-1978; elected BORLAND, William Patterson, a Representative from as a Republican to the United States Senate in November Missouri; born in Leavenworth, Kans., October 14, 1867; 1978 for the term commencing January 3, 1979; subse- attended the public schools; was graduated from the law quently appointed on December 30, 1978, to fill the vacancy department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor caused by the resignation of Wendell B. Anderson for the in 1892; was admitted to the bar and commenced the prac- term ending January 3, 1979; reelected in 1984 for the term tice of law in Kansas City, Mo., the same year; assisted ending January 3, 1991; unsuccessful candidate for reelec- in the organization of the Kansas City School of Law and tion in 1990 and in 1996; chairman, National Republican served as dean 1895-1909; member of the board of Senatorial Committee (One Hundredth Congress); continued freeholders directed to draft a charter for Kansas City in civic activities and membership on various advisory boards, 1898; also engaged as an author on law subjects; elected including state chair of the American Cancer Society Cru- as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the four succeeding sade, Upper Midwest Kidney Foundation, campaign chair- Congresses and served from March 4, 1909, until his death; man for Minneapolis Federation for Jewish Service; received unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1918 to the Citizen’s Medal in 1991 for efforts in Ethiopia as President Sixty-sixth Congress; died near Coblenz, Germany, while George H.W. Bush’s emissary; finance chair in Minnesota on a Masonic mission abroad, on February 20, 1919; inter- for President George W. Bush 2000, 2004; is a resident ment in Elmwood Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo. of Minneapolis, Minn. BORSKI, Robert Anthony, Jr., a Representative from BOSCO, Douglas Harry, a Representative from Cali- Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, fornia; born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., July 28, 1946; Pa., October 20, 1948; graduated from Frankford High attended Homestead High School, Sunnyvale, Calif.; grad- School, Philadelphia, Pa., 1966; B.A., University of Balti- uated, Capitol Page School, Washington, D.C., 1963; B.A., 682 Biographical Directory

Willamette University, Salem, Oreg., 1968; J.D., Willamette elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Fifth and to University, 1971; admitted to the California bar, 1971, and the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1997-present). commenced practice in San Rafael; director, Department of Human Relations, Marin County, Calif., 1973; executive di- BOTELER, Alexander Robinson, a Representative from rector, Marin County Housing Authority, 1974; elected, Cali- Virginia; born in Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, Va. (now fornia legislature, 1979-1982; delegate, California State West Virginia), May 16, 1815; was graduated from Princeton Democratic convention, 1982; delegate, Democratic National College in 1835; engaged in agriculture and literary pur- Convention, 1980; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety- suits; elected as the candidate of the Opposition Party to eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); 1983-January 3, 1991); unsuccessful candidate for reelection during the Civil War entered the Confederate Army and in 1990 to the One Hundred Second Congress; is a resident was a member of Stonewall Jackson’s staff; chosen by the of Occidental, Calif. State convention a Representative from Virginia to the Con- federate Provisional Congress November 19, 1861; elected BOSONE, Reva Zilpha Beck, a Representative from from Virginia to the Confederate Congress, serving from Utah; born in American Fork, Utah County, Utah, April February 1862 to February 1864; appointed a member of 2, 1895; attended the public schools; graduated from West- the Centennial Commission in 1876; appointed a member minster Junior College in 1917 and from the University of the Tariff Commission by President Arthur and subse- of California at Berkeley in 1919; taught high school 1920- quently made pardon clerk in the Department of Justice 1927; graduated from the University of Utah College of Law by Attorney General Brewster; died in Shepherdstown, Jef- at Salt Lake City in 1930 and was admitted to the bar ferson County, W.Va., May 8, 1892; interment in Elmwood the same year; practiced law in Helper, Carbon County, Cemetery. Utah, 1931-1933 and Salt Lake City, 1933-1936; member of the State house of representatives 1933-1935, serving as BOTKIN, Jeremiah Dunham, a Representative from floor leader in 1935; elected Salt Lake City judge in 1936 Kansas; born near Atlanta, Logan County, Ill., April 24, and served until elected to Congress; during the Second 1849; attended the country schools; spent one year at De World War was chairman of Women’s Army Corps Civilian Pauw University, Greencastle, Ind.; pursued theological Advisory Committee of the Ninth Service Command; official studies, and entered the Methodist ministry in 1870; unsuc- observer at United Nations Conference at San Francisco cessful Prohibition candidate for Governor of Kansas in in 1945; first director of Utah State Board for Education 1888; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1894 to the on Alcoholism in 1947 and 1948; elected as a Democrat Fifty-fourth Congress; chaplain of the Kansas senate in to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses (January 1897; elected as a Populist to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 3, 1949-January 3, 1953); unsuccessful candidate for reelec- 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); unsuccessful candidate for reelection tion in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress and for election in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; resumed ministerial du- in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress; delegate to Demo- ties; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1908; warden cratic National Conventions in 1952 and 1956; resumed the of the State penitentiary, Lansing, Kans., 1913-1915; again practice of law in Salt Lake City, 1953-1957; legal counsel resumed his ministerial duties; became a Chautauqua lec- to Safety and Compensation Subcommittee of House Com- turer in 1921; died in Liberal, Seward County, Kans., De- mittee on Education and Labor 1957-1960; judicial officer, cember 29, 1921; interment in Winfield Cemetery, Winfield, Post Office Department in 1961-1968; was a resident of Vi- Cowley County, Kans. enna, Va., until her death there July 21, 1983. Bibliography: Clopton, Beverly B. Her Honor, the Judge: The Story of BOTTS, John Minor, a Representative from Virginia; Reva Beck Bosone. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1980. born in Dumfries, Va., September 16, 1802; attended the common schools in Richmond, Va.; studied law; was admit- BOSS, John Linscom, Jr., a Representative from Rhode ted to the bar in 1830 and commenced practice in Richmond, Island; born in Charleston, S.C., September 7, 1780; com- Va.; moved to Henrico County and engaged in agricultural pleted preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to pursuits; member of the State house of delegates 1833-1839; the bar and commenced practice in Newport, R.I.; held many elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh important local offices; member of the State house of rep- Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); unsuccessful resentatives from 1806 to 1815; elected as a Federalist to candidate for reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Con- the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815- gress; elected to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847- March 3, 1819); died in Newport, R.I., August 1, 1819; inter- March 3, 1849); chairman, Committee on Military Affairs ment in the Common Burial Ground. (Thirtieth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection BOSSIER, Pierre Jean Baptiste Evariste, a Represent- in 1848 and 1850 to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Con- ative from Louisiana; born in Natchitoches, La., March 22, gresses, respectively; member, State constitutional conven- 1797; received a classical education; engaged as a sugar tion, 1850-1851; resumed the practice of law in Richmond, and cotton planter; member of the State senate 1833-1843; Va., in 1852; delegate to the Southern Loyalists’ Convention elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress and in 1866; died in Richmond, Va., January 8, 1869; interment served from March 4, 1843, until his death in Washington, in Shockoe Hill Cemetery. D.C., on April 24, 1844; interment in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in the Catholic BOTTUM, Joseph H., a Senator from South Dakota; Cemetery, Natchitoches, La. born in Faulkton, Faulk County, S.Dak., August 7, 1903; attended the public schools of Faulkton; attended Yankton BOSWELL, Leonard L., a Representative from Iowa; College and the University of South Dakota 1920-1921; grad- born in Harrison County, Mo., January 10, 1934; graduated uated from the law school of the University of South Dakota from Lamoni High School, Lamoni, Iowa, 1952; B.A., at Vermillion in 1927; admitted to the bar in 1927 and Graceland College, Lamoni, Iowa, 1969; United States Army, commenced the practice of law in St. Paul, Minn., in 1928; 1956-1976; farmer; board of directors of the local farmer’s state’s attorney at Faulkton 1932-1936; director of taxation cooperative, 1979-1993, president for thirteen years; member for the State of South Dakota 1937-1943; unsuccessful in of the Iowa state senate, 1984-1996, president, 1992-1996; seeking the Republican nomination for Governor in 1942 Biographies 683

and for Representative in 1950; lieutenant governor of South Eighth Congress; resumed his former business as a lumber Dakota 1960-1962; appointed on July 9, 1962, as a Repub- dealer; died in Columbia, Pa., October 24, 1822; interment lican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused in that part of Mount Bethel Cemetery known as the ‘‘Brick by the death of Francis Case and served until January 3, Graveyard.’’ 1963; unsuccessful candidate in 1962 for election to the va- cancy; circuit judge of Seventh Judicial Circuit; was a resi- BOUDINOT, Elias, a Delegate and a Representative from dent of Rapid City, S.Dak. until his death there on July New Jersey; born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1740; received 4, 1984; interment in Pine Lawn Cemetery, Rapid City, a classical education; studied law; was admitted to the bar S.Dak. in 1760 and commenced practice in Elizabethtown, N.J.; Bibliography: Clem, Alan. The Nomination of Joe Bottum: Analysis of member of the board of trustees of Princeton College 1772- a Committee Decision to Nominate a United States Senator. Vermillion: 1821; member of the committee of safety in 1775; com- Governmental Research Bureau, University of South Dakota, 1963. Press- missary general of prisoners in the Revolutionary Army ler, Larry. ‘‘Joseph H. Bottum.’’ In U.S. Senators from the Prairie, pp. 1776-1779; Member of the Continental Congress in 1778, 150-52. Vermillion, SD: Dakota Press, 1982. 1781, 1782 and 1783, serving as President in 1782 and 1783, and signing the treaty of peace with England; resumed BOUCHER, Frederick C., a Representative from Vir- the practice of law; elected to the First, Second, and Third ginia; born in Washington County, Va., August 1, 1946; Congresses (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1795); was not a can- graduated from Abingdon High School, Abingdon, Va., 1964; didate for renomination in 1794 to the Fourth Congress; B.A., Roanoke College, Salem, Va., 1968; J.D., University Director of the Mint from October 1795 to July 1805, when of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Va., 1971; lawyer, he resigned; elected first president of the American Bible private practice; member of the Virginia state senate, 1974- Society, in 1816; died in Burlington, Burlington County, 1983; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth and to N.J., October 24, 1821; interment in St. Mary’s Protestant the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-present). Episcopal Church Cemetery. Bibliography: Boyd, George Adams. Elias Boudinot: Patriot and States- BOUCK, Gabriel (nephew of Joseph Bouck), a Represent- man, 1740-1821. 1952. Reprint, Westwood, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing ative from Wisconsin; born in Fultonham, Schoharie County, Group, 1969. N.Y., December 16, 1828; was graduated from Union Col- lege, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1847; studied law; moved to Osh- BOULDIN, James Wood (brother of Thomas Tyler kosh, Winnebago County, Wis., in 1848; was admitted to Bouldin), a Representative from Virginia; born in Charlotte the bar the same year and commenced practice in Oshkosh; County, Va., in 1792; attended the common schools; studied attorney general of the State in 1858 and 1859; member law; was admitted to the bar April 12, 1813, and commenced of the State assembly in 1860 and 1874, serving the last practice at Charlotte Court House, Va.; member of state year as speaker; served in the Union Army as captain of house of delegates, 1825-1826; elected as a Jacksonian to Company E, Second Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infan- the Twenty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by try, from July 11, 1861, to April 21, 1862, and as colonel the death of Thomas T. Bouldin; reelected to the Twenty- of the Eighteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, fourth Congress and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty- from April 22, 1862, to January 4, 1864; delegate to the fifth Congress and served from March 15, 1834, to March Democratic National Conventions in 1868 and 1872; unsuc- 3, 1839; chairman, Committee on District of Columbia cessful Democratic candidate for election in 1874 to the (Twenty-fifth Congress); resumed the practice of law and Forty-fourth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Forty- also engaged in agricultural pursuits; died at his country fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, home, ‘‘Forest Hill,’’ Charlotte County, Va., March 30, 1854; 1881); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1880 to the interment in the private burial ground on his estate. Forty-seventh Congress; resumed the practice of law in Osh- kosh, Wis., and died there on February 21, 1904; interment BOULDIN, Thomas Tyler (brother of James Wood in the Riverside Cemetery. Bouldin), a Representative from Virginia; born near Char- lotte Court House, Charlotte County, Va., in 1781; attended BOUCK, Joseph (uncle of ), a Representa- the country schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar tive from New York; born on Bouck’s Island, near December 6, 1802, and commenced practice at Charlotte Fultonham, Schoharie County, N.Y., July 22, 1788; attended Court House, Va.; appointed judge of the circuit court; elect- the rural schools of his native county; engaged in agricul- ed as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second tural pursuits for many years in Schoharie County until Congresses (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1833); unsuccessful his change of residence to Middleburgh; served as inspector candidate for reelection to the Twenty-third Congress; subse- of turnpike roads in Schoharie County in 1828; elected as quently elected to the Twenty-third Congress to fill the va- a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831- cancy caused by the death of John Randolph and served March 3, 1833); resided in Middleburgh, N.Y., until his from August 26, 1833, until his death in Washington, D.C., death on March 30, 1858; interment in his son’s plot in February 11, 1834, while addressing the House of Represent- Middleburgh Cemetery. atives; interment in a private cemetery on his farm, ‘‘Golden Hills,’’ near Drakes Branch, Charlotte County, Va. BOUDE, Thomas, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Lancaster, Pa., May 17, 1752; attended private BOULIGNY, Charles Dominique Joseph (uncle of John schools; during the Revolutionary War served as a lieuten- Edward Bouligny), a Senator from Louisiana; born in New ant under Gen. Anthony Wayne with the Second, Fourth, Orleans, La., August 22, 1773; was educated by private tu- and Fifth Pennsylvania Battalions from January 5, 1776, tors; served as ensign in his father’s Spanish Regiment; to November 3, 1783, and was promoted to captain and commissioner of the municipal council in 1800; assumed brevet major; engaged in business as a lumber dealer in American citizenship when the United States acquired Lou- Columbia, Lancaster County, Pa.; member and one of the isiana through the Louisiana Purchase in 1803; studied law; organizers of the Society of the Cincinnati; member of the was admitted to the bar and practiced in New Orleans; State house of representatives 1794-1796; elected as a Fed- member, Louisiana Territorial house of representatives eralist to the Seventh Congress (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1806; appointed justice of the peace in New Orleans 1807; 1803); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1802 to the served on the committee on public defense during the British 684 Biographical Directory

invasion in 1814 and 1815; elected to the United States in Bristol, R.I., September 17, 1808; interment in Juniper Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry Hill Cemetery. Johnson and served from November 19, 1824, to March 3, 1829; died in New Orleans, La., on March 4, 1833; interment BOURNE, Jonathan, Jr., a Senator from Oregon; born in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. in New Bedford, Bristol County, Mass., February 23, 1855; Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- attended private schools and Harvard University; settled ography; Martin, Fontaine. A History of the Bouligny Family and Allied in Portland 1878; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1881 Families. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of South- and practiced in Portland 1881-1886; interests in mining, western Louisiana, 1990. farming, cotton mills, and commercial enterprises; member, Oregon house of representatives 1887-1899; elected as a Re- BOULIGNY, John Edward (nephew of Charles Joseph publican to the United States Senate and served from March Dominique Bouligny), a Representative from Louisiana; born 4, 1907, to March 3, 1913; unsuccessful candidate for re- in New Orleans, La., February 5, 1824; attended the public nomination in 1912; chairman, Committee on Fisheries (Six- schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- tieth and Sixty-first Congresses), Committee on Post Offices menced practice in New Orleans; held several local offices; and Post Roads (Sixty-second Congress); president of the elected as the candidate of the American Party to the Thirty- National Republican Progressive League; resumed his sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); was strongly former pursuits in Oregon and Massachusetts; engaged in opposed to secession and was the only Louisiana Member newspaper work in Washington, D.C., until his death there to retain his seat after the State seceded on January 26, on September 1, 1940; interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 1861; retired to private life and remained in the North dur- Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- ing the Civil War; died in Washington, D.C., February 20, ography; Pike, Albert Jr. ‘‘Jonathan Bourne Jr., Progressive.’’ Ph.D. dis- 1864; interment in the Congressional Cemetery. sertation, University of Oregon, 1957; Schlup, Leonard. ‘‘Republican Insur- gent: Jonathan Bourne and the Politics of Progressivism, 1908-1912.’’ Or- BOULTER, Eldon Beau, a Representative from Texas; egon Historical Quarterly 87 (Fall 1986): 229-44. born in El Paso, El Paso County, Tex., February 23, 1942; was graduated from Levelland High School in 1960, the BOURNE, Shearjashub, a Representative from Massa- University of Texas in 1965, and the Baylor University Law chusetts; born in Barnstable, Mass., June 14, 1746; was School, Waco, Tex., in 1968; admitted to the bar in 1968 graduated from Harvard College in 1764; studied law; was and practiced law in Amarillo, Tex.; member of the Amarillo admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Boston; City Commission 1981-1983; unsuccessful candidate for nom- member of the State house of representatives 1782-1785 ination to the Ninety-eighth Congress in 1982; elected as and 1788-1790; member of the convention in 1788 which a Republican to the Ninety-ninth and One Hundredth Con- ratified the Constitution; elected to the Second and Third gresses (January 3, 1985-January 3, 1989); was not a can- Congresses (March 4, 1791-March 3, 1795); served as justice didate for reelection, but was an unsuccessful nominee for of the court of common pleas of Suffolk County from 1799 the United States Senate; unsuccessful candidate in 1992 until his death in Boston, Mass., March 11, 1806. for the One Hundred Third Congress; is a resident of Ama- rillo, Tex. BOUTELL, Henry Sherman, a Representative from Illi- nois; born in Boston, Mass., March 14, 1856; moved to Chi- BOUND, Franklin, a Representative from Pennsylvania; cago, Ill., in 1863; pursued academic studies; was graduated born in Milton, Northumberland County, Pa., April 9, 1829; from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., in 1874 and attended the common schools and old Milton Academy; stud- from Harvard University in 1876; studied law; was admitted ied law at Easton, Pa.; was admitted to the bar in 1853 to the bar in 1879 and commenced practice in Chicago, and commenced practice in Milton; member of the State Ill.; member of the State house of representatives in 1884 senate 1860-1863; delegate to the Republican National Con- and 1885; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress vention in 1868; served as a private in one of the emergency to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward D. Cooke; regiments called for the defense of the State; was mustered reelected to the Fifty-sixth and to the five succeeding Con- into the United States service and discharged with his regi- gresses and served from November 23, 1897, to March 3, ment; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth and Fif- 1911; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Depart- tieth Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889); was not ment of the Navy (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses); un- a candidate for renomination in 1888; resumed the practice successful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-sec- of law; died in Milton, Pa., on August 8, 1910; interment ond Congress; trustee of Northwestern University 1899- in Milton Cemetery. 1911; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1908; appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- BOUQUARD, Marilyn Lloyd, a Representative from potentiary to Portugal March 2, 1911, and to Switzerland Tennessee. (See LLOYD, Marilyn Laird.) April 24, 1911, and served until 1913, when he resigned; professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University, BOURNE, Benjamin, a Representative from Rhode Is- Washington, D.C., 1914-1923; died while on a trip in San land; born in Bristol, R.I., September 9, 1755; was graduated Remo, Italy, March 11, 1926; interment in Pine Grove Ceme- from Harvard College in 1775; studied law; was admitted tery, Westboro, Worcester County, Mass. to the bar and commenced practice in Providence; held sev- eral public offices; quartermaster of the Second Rhode Island BOUTELLE, Charles Addison, a Representative from Regiment in 1776; member of the general assembly in 1789 Maine; born in Damariscotta, Lincoln County, Maine, Feb- and 1790; upon the ratification of the Constitution by the ruary 9, 1839; attended the public schools at Brunswick State of Rhode Island was elected to the First through Third and the Yarmouth Academy; adopted the profession of ship- Congresses and as a Federalist to the Fourth and Fifth master; in the spring of 1862 volunteered and was appointed Congresses and served from August 31, 1790, until his res- acting master in the United States Navy; served in the ignation in 1796, before the close of the Fourth Congress; North and South Atlantic and West Gulf Squadrons; pro- appointed judge of the United States District Court for the moted to lieutenant, May 5, 1864; participated in the cap- District of Rhode Island in 1801 and, later, judge of the ture of Mobile and in receiving surrender of the Confederate United States Circuit Court for the Eastern Circuit; died Fleet; afterwards assigned to command of naval forces in Biographies 685

Mississippi Sound; honorably discharged January 14, 1866; 1831; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress engaged in business in New York; became managing editor (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1837); returned to Amsterdam and of the Bangor (Maine) Whig and Courier in 1870 and pur- resumed mercantile pursuits; moved to Milwaukee, Wis., in chased controlling ownership in 1874; delegate to the Repub- June 1843 and two months later settled near Eagle, lican National Convention at Cincinnati in 1876; elected Waukesha County, and engaged in agricultural pursuits; as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and to the nine suc- justice of the peace for 10 years; died in Eagle, Wis., Sep- ceeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1883, until tember 12, 1872; interment in Oak Ridge Cemetery. his resignation, March 3, 1901, before the commencement of the Fifty-seventh Congress, to which he had been re- BOW, Frank Townsend, a Representative from Ohio; elected; chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Fifty-first born in Canton, Stark County, Ohio, February 20, 1901; Congress and Fifty-fourth through Fifty-sixth Congresses); attended the public schools in Canton and Plain Township, by joint resolution of Congress on January 16, 1901, was Stark County, Ohio, the University School, Cleveland, Ohio, placed on the retired list of the Navy, with the rank of and Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind.; attended the captain; died in Waverley, Middlesex County, Mass., May law school of Ohio Northern University at Ada in 1921; 21, 1901; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, postgraduate work at Columbia University, New York City; Maine. was admitted to the bar in 1923 and commenced the practice of law in Canton, Ohio; assistant attorney general of Ohio BOUTWELL, George Sewel, a Representative and a 1929-1932; during the Second World War became news edi- Senator from Massachusetts; born in Brookline, Mass., Jan- tor of radio station WHBC, Canton, Ohio, and in 1945 was uary 28, 1818; attended the public schools; taught school selected to serve as a war correspondent with Ohio’s Thirty- in Shirley, Mass.; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Groton, seventh Division in the Philippines; general counsel to Sub- Mass., 1841; appointed postmaster of Groton 1841; studied committee on Expenditures and to the Select Committee law; member, State house of representatives 1842-1844, To Investigate the Federal Communications Commission 1847-1850; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election during the Eightieth Congress; served as legislative assist- to both Congress and the governorship on several occasions ant to Senator Andrew F. Schoeppel in the Eighty-first Con- between 1844 and 1850; State bank commissioner 1849- gress; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to 1851; Governor of Massachusetts 1851-1852; member of the the ten succeeding Congresses; served from January 3, 1951, State constitutional convention in 1853; secretary of the until his death November 13, 1972, in Bethesda, Md.; inter- State board of education 1855-1861; member of the board ment in West Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio. of overseers of Harvard University 1850-1860; member of the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in BOWDEN, George Edwin (nephew of Lemuel Jackson an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; Bowden), a Representative from Virginia; born in Williams- served on the military commission under the War Depart- burg, James City County, Va., July 6, 1852; attended a ment in 1862; first Commissioner of Internal Revenue in private school; studied law; was admitted to the bar but 1862 and 1863; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth never practiced; engaged in banking; collector of customs and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from for the port of Norfolk from September 1879 until May 1885; March 4, 1863, to March 12, 1869, when he resigned; one elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Con- of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives gresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful can- in 1868 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against didate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; President Andrew Johnson; appointed Secretary of the again collector of customs for the port of Norfolk; clerk of Treasury by President Ulysses Grant 1869-1873, when he the United States Court for the Eastern District of Virginia resigned; elected as a Republican to the United States Sen- from March 10, 1899, until his death in Norfolk, Va., Janu- ate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry ary 22, 1908; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. Wilson and served from March 17, 1873, until March 3, BOWDEN, Lemuel Jackson (uncle of George Edwin 1877; chairman, Committee on the Revision of the Laws Bowden), a Senator from Virginia; born in Williamsburg, of the United States (Forty-fourth Congress); appointed by James City County, Va., January 16, 1815; graduated from President Rutherford Hayes as commissioner to codify and William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.; studied law; edit the Statutes at Large in 1877; United States counsel was admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice before the French and American Claims Commission 1880; in Williamsburg; member, State house of delegates 1841- declined appointment as Secretary of the Treasury in 1884; 1846; delegate to the Virginia constitutional conventions in practiced law in Washington, D.C.; counsel for Haiti in 1885, 1849 and 1851; elected as a Republican to the United States for Hawaii in 1886, and for Chile in 1893 and 1894; presi- Senate and served from March 4, 1863, until his death in dent of the Anti-Imperialist League 1898-1905; died in Grot- Washington, D.C., on January 2, 1864; interment in Con- on, Middlesex County, Mass., February 27, 1905; interment gressional Cemetery. in Groton Cemetery. Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- BOWDLE, Stanley Eyre, a Representative from Ohio; ography; Boutwell, George S. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Af- born in Clifton, Hamilton County, Ohio, September 4, 1868; fairs. 1902. Reprint. New York: Greenwood Press, 1968; Brown, Thomas attended the public schools until fifteen years of age; served M. George Sewall Boutwell, Human Rights Advocate. Groton, MA: Groton Historical Society, 1989. an apprenticeship of three years in the machine shops of Cramp’s shipyard, Philadelphia, Pa.; studied law, and was BOVEE, Matthias Jacob, a Representative from New graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1889; was York; born in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, N.Y., July admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice 24, 1793; attended the rural school until the death of his in Cincinnati; because of ill health, moved to Colorado and father in 1807; taught school in winter and worked the later to Mexico, where he resided from 1897 to 1900; re- family farm in summer; engaged in mercantile pursuits in turned to Cincinnati and resumed his profession; member 1815; chairman of the town of Amsterdam; member of the of the State constitutional convention in 1912; elected as county board of supervisors; elected a member of the State a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913- assembly in 1826; trustee of the village of Amsterdam in March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 686 Biographical Directory

to the Sixty-fourth Congress and in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth ginia, and served until December 21, 1864, when he was Congress; mayor of Clifton, Ohio; engaged in the practice captured by Sheridan’s cavalry at Lacy Springs, Va.; re- of law in Cincinnati, Ohio, until his death there April 6, leased June 19, 1865; returned to his native county and 1919; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery. resumed farming; member of the State house of delegates 1869-1873; elected as a Readjuster to the Forty-eighth Con- BOWDON, Franklin Welsh (uncle of Johnston gress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); unsuccessful candidate Bowie), a Representative from Alabama; born in Chester for renomination in 1884; elected as a Republican to the District, S.C., February 17, 1817; attended the common Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); unsuccess- schools and was graduated from the University of Alabama ful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Con- at Tuscaloosa in 1836; studied law; was admitted to the gress; delegate to the Republican National Convention in bar and commenced practice in Talladega, Ala.; member of 1892; resumed agricultural interests and stock raising in the State house of representatives in 1844 and 1845; elected Tazewell County, Va.; died at his home, ‘‘Maiden Springs,’’ as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress to fill the va- in Tazewell County, April 29, 1915; interment in Jefferson- cancy caused by the death of Felix G. McConnell; reelected ville Cemetery, Tazewell, Va. to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses and served from December 7, 1846, to March 3, 1851; chairman, Committee BOWEN, John Henry, a Representative from Tennessee; on Public Buildings and Grounds (Thirty-first Congress); born in Washington County, Va., in September 1780; at- was not a candidate for renomination in 1850; moved to tended the schools of Lexington, Ky.; studied law; was ad- Henderson, Rusk County, Tex., in 1852, where he resumed mitted to the bar and commenced practice in Gallatin, the practice of his profession; died in Henderson, Tex., June Tenn.; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress 8, 1857; interment in the City Cemetery. (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); engaged in the practice of law in Gallatin, Cherokee County, Tenn., until his death BOWEN, Christopher Columbus, a Representative from there September 25, 1822. South Carolina; born in Providence, R.I., January 5, 1832; attended the public schools; moved to Georgia in 1850; en- BOWEN, Rees Tate (father of Henry Bowen), a Rep- gaged in agricultural pursuits; studied law; was admitted resentative from Virginia; born at ‘‘Maiden Springs,’’ near to the bar in 1862 and commenced practice in Charleston, Tazewell, Tazewell County, Va., January 10, 1809; attended S.C.; during the Civil War enlisted in the Confederate Army Abingdon Academy, Virginia; engaged in agricultural pur- and served throughout the war as a captain in the Coast suits; appointed brigadier general of the State militia; mem- Guard; resumed the practice of law in Charleston, S.C.; ber of the State house of delegates 1863-1865; magistrate of Tazewell County for several years prior to the war and member of the Republican State convention at Charleston presiding justice of the county court a portion of that time; in May 1867; first chairman of the Republican State central elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third Congress (March committee; delegate to the State constitutional convention 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomina- in November 1867; upon the readmission of South Carolina tion in 1874; resumed agricultural pursuits; died at his to representation was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth home, ‘‘Maiden Springs,’’ in Tazewell County, Va., August and Forty-first Congresses and served from July 20, 1868, 29, 1879; interment in the family burying ground on his to March 3, 1871; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in estate, ‘‘Maiden Springs.’’ 1870 to the Forty-second Congress; member of South Caro- lina house of representatives, 1871-1872; elected sheriff of BOWEN, Thomas Mead, a Senator from Colorado; born Charleston in November 1872; died in New York City, June near the present site of Burlington, Iowa, October 26, 1835; 23, 1880; interment in St. Laurence Cemetery, Charleston, attended the public schools and the academy at Mount S.C. Pleasant, Iowa; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1853 and practiced; moved to Wayne County, Iowa, in 1856; mem- BOWEN, David Reece, a Representative from Mis- ber, Iowa house of representatives 1856; moved to Kansas sissippi; born in Houston, Chickasaw County, Miss., October in 1858; during the Civil War served in the Union Army 21, 1932; graduated, Cleveland (Miss.) High School, 1950; 1861-1865, as captain, then as a colonel; brevetted brigadier attended University of Missouri, 1950-1952; A.B., Harvard general; located in Arkansas after the war; member and University, 1954; M.A., Oxford University, Oxford, England, president of the constitutional convention of Arkansas 1866; 1956; served in the United States Army, private first class, justice of the supreme court of Arkansas 1867-1871; ap- 1957-1958; assistant professor of political science and his- pointed Governor of Idaho Territory by President Ulysses tory, Mississippi College, 1958-1959, and Millsaps College, Grant in 1871; resigned and returned to Arkansas; moved 1959-1964; employed by U.S. Office of Economic Oppor- to Colorado in 1875 and resumed the practice of law; upon tunity, 1966-1967; U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1967-1968; the organization of the State government was elected judge first coordinator of federal-state programs, State of Mis- of the fourth judicial district 1876-1880; member, State sissippi, 1968-1972; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety- house of representatives 1882; resigned, having been elected third and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, as a Republican to the United States Senate, and served 1973-January 3, 1983); was not a candidate for reelection from March 4, 1883, to March 3, 1889; chairman, Committee in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress; visiting lecturer, Mis- on Mining (Forty-eighth Congress), Committee on Enrolled sissippi State University, 1985-1987; is a resident of Bills (Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses); engaged in min- McLean, Va. ing in Colorado, with residence in Pueblo, Colo., where he BOWEN, Henry (son of Rees Tate Bowen, nephew of died December 30, 1906; interment in Roselawn Cemetery. Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- John Warfield Johnston, and cousin of William Bowen ography. Campbell), a Representative from Virginia; born at ‘‘Maiden Springs,’’ near Tazewell, Tazewell County, Va., December BOWER, Gustavus Miller, a Representative from Mis- 26, 1841; attended the public schools and Emory and Henry souri; born near Culpeper, Culpeper County, Va., December College, Emory, Va.; engaged in agricultural pursuits; en- 12, 1790; attended the public schools; studied medicine in tered the Confederate Army in 1861 as a captain of Cavalry Philadelphia, Pa.; moved to Kentucky prior to 1812 and in Payne’s brigade, Lee’s division, Army of Northern Vir- resided near Nicholasville; enlisted during the War of 1812 Biographies 687

as a surgeon-dresser; was one of the few survivors of the New York City; studied law; was admitted to the bar in massacre at Frenchtown, near Detroit, January 23, 1813; 1802 and commenced practice in Cooperstown, N.Y.; moved moved to Monroe County, Mo., in 1833, settled near Paris, to his country home, ‘‘Lakelands,’’ near Cooperstown, in and engaged in the practice of medicine and also in agricul- 1805; presented credentials as a Federalist Member-elect tural pursuits; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth to the Thirteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); resumed the prac- the death of Representative-elect William Dowse and served tice of medicine; died near Paris, Monroe County, Mo., No- from May 26, 1813, to December 20, 1813, when he was vember 17, 1864; interment in the family burying ground succeeded by Isaac William, Jr., who contested the election; north of Paris, Mo. resumed the practice of law in Cooperstown, Otsego County, N.Y., where he died February 24, 1846; interment in Lake- BOWER, William Horton, a Representative from North wood Cemetery. Carolina; born near Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, N.C., June 6, 1850; attended the Finley High School at Lenoir, N.C.; BOWERS, William Wallace, a Representative from Cali- studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1870 and com- fornia; born in Whitestown, Oneida County, N.Y., October menced practice in Lenoir; moved to California in 1876 and 20, 1834; attended the common schools; moved to Wisconsin taught school there four years; returned to Lenoir, N.C., in 1854; enlisted as a private in Company I, First Wisconsin Cavalry, February 22, 1862; discharged from the service as in 1881; member of the State house of representatives in second sergeant February 22, 1865; moved to San Diego, 1882; served in the State senate in 1884; solicitor of the Calif., in 1869; engaged in ranching; member of the State tenth judicial district of North Carolina in 1885 and 1886; assembly in 1873 and 1874; appointed collector of customs unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1890; elected as a of the port of San Diego, Calif., September 25, 1874, and Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March served until his resignation on February 3, 1879; owned 3, 1895); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to and operated a hotel in San Diego 1884-1891; member of the Fifty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law in the State senate 1887-1889; elected as a Republican to the Lenoir, Caldwell County, N.C., and died there May 11, 1910; Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March interment in Elkville Cemetery, Caldwell County, N.C. 4, 1891-March 3, 1897); chairman, Committee on Revision of the Laws (Fifty-fourth Congress); unsuccessful candidate BOWERS, Eaton Jackson, a Representative from Mis- for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; again ap- sissippi; born in Canton, Madison County, Miss., June 17, pointed collector of customs of the port of San Diego, Calif., 1865; attended the public schools, and Mississippi Military on March 15, 1902, and served until March 4, 1906; resided Institute at Pass Christian; studied law; was admitted to in San Diego, Calif., in retirement until his death there the bar in 1883 at the age of seventeen and practiced in on May 2, 1917; interment in the Masonic Cemetery. Canton until August 1884, when he moved to Bay St. Louis; engaged in the practice of law and in newspaper work; editor BOWERSOCK, Justin De Witt, a Representative from and proprietor of the Gulf Coast Progress at Bay St. Louis; Kansas; born near Columbiana, Columbiana County, Ohio, member of the Democratic State executive committee 1886- September 19, 1842; moved to Iowa City, Iowa, in 1860 1900; retired from the newspaper business in 1890; member and engaged in mercantile pursuits and grain shipping; of the State senate in 1896; served in the State house of moved to Lawrence, Kans., in 1877 and engaged in banking representatives in 1900; delegate to the Democratic National and in the manufacture of flour, paper, and barbed wire; Conventions in 1900 and 1916; elected as a Democrat to mayor of Lawrence 1881-1885; elected to the Kansas house the Fifty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses of representatives in 1887; member of the State senate in (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1911); was not a candidate for 1895; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and to the renomination in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress; resumed three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1907); the practice of law in Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, Miss.; was not a candidate for renomination in 1906; interested moved to New Orleans, La., and continued the practice of in banking and manufactures in Lawrence, Kans., until his law until his death there October 26, 1939; interment in death there on October 27, 1922; interment in Oak Hill Cedar Rest Cemetery, Bay St. Louis, Miss. Cemetery. BOWERS, George Meade, a Representative from West BOWIE, Richard Johns, a Representative from Mary- Virginia; born in Gerrardstown, Berkeley County, W.Va., land; born in Georgetown, D.C., June 23, 1807; attended September 13, 1863; educated by private tutors and at- the public schools and Brookville Academy; studied law and was graduated from the Georgetown Law School in 1826; tended high school; engaged in banking; member of the State commenced practice in Washington, D.C., in 1826; admitted house of delegates 1883-1887; supervisor of the United to practice before the Supreme Court in 1829; moved to States census for West Virginia in 1890; delegate to the Rockville, Md., and engaged in agricultural pursuits and Republican National Convention in 1892; member and treas- also practiced law; member of the State house of delegates urer of the board of World’s Fair commissioners for West 1835-1837; served in the State senate 1837-1841; delegate Virginia in 1893; Commissioner of Fisheries from 1898 to to the Whig National Convention at Harrisburg, Pa., in 1913, when he resigned; elected as a Republican to the 1840; State’s attorney for Montgomery County 1844-1849; Sixty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Con- of William G. Brown, Jr.; reelected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty- gresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); unsuccessful Whig sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses and served from May candidate for Governor in 1853; resumed the practice of 9, 1916, to March 3, 1923; unsuccessful candidate for reelec- his profession in Rockville; chief judge of the court of appeals tion in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; president of the of Maryland 1861-1867; chief judge of the sixth judicial cir- People’s Trust Co.; died in Martinsburg, W.Va., December cuit, and as such also an associate judge of the court of 7, 1925; interment in the Presbyterian Cemetery, appeals of Maryland, from November 7, 1871, until his death Gerrardstown, W.Va. near Rockville, Montgomery County, Md., March 12, 1881; interment in Rockville Cemetery. BOWERS, John Myer, a Representative from New York; born in Boston, Mass., September 25, 1772; attended the BOWIE, Sydney Johnston (nephew of Franklin Welsh common schools and was graduated from Columbia College, Bowdon), a Representative from Alabama; born in Talladega, 688 Biographical Directory

Talladega County, Ala., July 26, 1865; attended private 1923-1927; public vehicle license commissioner for the city schools, and was graduated from the law department of of Chicago in 1934; again served as a member in the city the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1885; was admit- council 1928-1953, serving as president pro tempore for eight ted to the bar June 1, 1885, and commenced practice in years; engaged in the insurance business; elected as a Demo- Talladega, Ala.; city clerk of Talladega in 1885 and 1886; crat to the Eighty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused member of the board of aldermen in 1891; member of the by the death of Adolph J. Sabath; reelected to the Eighty- Democratic State executive committee 1894-1899; moved to fourth and Eighty-fifth Congresses and served from July Anniston, Ala., in 1899; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty- 7, 1953, until his death in Chicago, Ill., July 18, 1957; inter- seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, ment in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Ill. 1901-March 3, 1907); declined to be a candidate for renomi- nation in 1906; moved to Birmingham and continued the BOWLES, Chester Bliss, a Representative from Con- practice of law until 1919, when he engaged in business necticut; born in Springfield, Hampden County, Mass., April there as an automobile dealer; member of the Southern Edu- 5, 1901; graduated from Choate School, Wallingford, Conn., cation Board in 1908 and 1909; member of the Birmingham in 1919 and from Yale University in 1924; businessman Board of Education 1915-1919; chairman of the State edu- in Springfield, Mass., and New York City, 1924-1929; co- cational commission in 1920; delegate at large to the Demo- founder Benton & Bowles, Inc., an advertising agency, New cratic National Convention in 1920; president of the Ala- York City, in 1929 and was chairman of the board 1936- bama Tuberculosis Commission 1920-1922; member of the 1941; Connecticut State rationing administrator in 1942, State harbor commission in 1922 and 1923; died in Bir- State director in 1942 and 1943, and general manager July- mingham, Ala., May 7, 1928; interment in Elmwood Ceme- October 1943; administrator, Office of Price Administration, tery. 1943-1946; member, War Production Board and Petroleum Board for War 1943-1946; chairman, Economic Stabilization BOWIE, Thomas Fielder (grandnephew of Walter Bowie Board, 1946; delegate to the United Nations Economic, Sci- and brother-in-law of Reverdy Johnson), a Representative entific and Cultural Organization Conference at Paris in from Maryland; born in Queen Anne, Prince Georges Coun- 1946; Governor of Connecticut 1949-1951; Ambassador to ty, Md., April 7, 1808; attended Charlotte Hall Academy India and Nepal 1951-1953; author and lecturer; trustee in St. Marys County, Md., and Princeton College, Princeton, of Rockefeller Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and N.J.; was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation; delegate to the Demo- in 1827; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1829 and cratic National Conventions in 1940, 1948, and 1956; chair- commenced practice in Upper Marlboro, Md.; deputy attor- man of the platform committee, Democratic National Con- ney general for Prince Georges County 1833-1842; member vention, in 1960; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth of the State house of delegates 1842-1846; unsuccessful can- Congress (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1961); was not a can- didate for Governor in 1843; unsuccessful candidate for elec- didate for renomination in 1960; Under Secretary of State, tion in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress; member of the 1961; President’s special representative and advisor, 1961- State constitutional convention in 1851; member of the judi- 1963; returned to India as United States Ambassador and cial committee assisting in framing the State’s new constitu- served from 1963 to 1969; was a resident of Essex, Conn., tion; presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1852; elected until his death there on May 25, 1986. as a Democrat to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Con- Bibliography: Bowles, Chester. Promises to Keep: My Years in Public gresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859); was an unsuccessful Life, 1941-1969. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. candidate for renomination in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Con- gress; resumed the practice of his profession; died in Upper BOWLES, Henry Leland, a Representative from Massa- Marlboro, Md., October 30, 1869; interment in the Waring chusetts; born in Athens, Windham County, Vt., January family burying ground at Mount Pleasant, near Upper Marl- 6, 1866; attended the district schools at Kendricks Corner boro, Md. and Vermont Academy at Saxtons River, Vt.; at the age of eighteen moved to Osage, Iowa, and engaged in agricul- BOWIE, Walter (granduncle of Thomas Fielder Bowie), tural pursuits; later moved to California, where for four a Representative from Maryland; born in Mattaponi, near years he worked as lumberjack, rancher, and farmer; re- Nottingham, Prince Georges County, Md., in 1748; attended turned east and settled in Massachusetts, working in Wal- Rev. John Eversfield’s School, near Nottingham, the common tham, Salem, and Lynn at various businesses; trustee of schools in Annapolis, and Craddock’s School, near Baltimore, the Vermont Academy; moved to Springfield, Mass., in 1898 Md.; engaged in agricultural pursuits, was a large land- and operated a chain of restaurants; member of the Gov- owner, and also was interested in shipping; member of the ernor’s council in 1913, 1918, and 1919; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1776; captain and, later, Republican National Convention in 1920 and in 1924; elect- major of a Prince Georges County company during the Revo- ed as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the lution; member of the State house of delegates 1780-1800; vacancy caused by the death of George B. Churchill; re- served in the State senate 1800-1802; elected as a Repub- elected to the Seventieth Congress and served from Sep- lican to the Seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused tember 29, 1925, to March 3, 1929; was not a candidate by the resignation of Richard Sprigg, Jr.; reelected to the for renomination in 1928; resumed his former business pur- Eighth Congress and served from March 24, 1802, to March suits; died in Springfield, Mass., May 17, 1932; the remains 3, 1805; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1804 were cremated and the ashes interred in Springfield Ceme- to the Ninth Congress; died near Collington, Prince Georges tery. County, Md., November 9, 1810; interment in the family burying ground on his estate. BOWLIN, James Butler, a Representative from Mis- souri; born near Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Va., BOWLER, James Bernard, a Representative from Illi- January 16, 1804; apprenticed to a trade, but abandoned nois; born in Chicago, Ill., February 5, 1875; attended the it to teach school; received a classical education; moved to parochial and public schools; professional bicycle rider and Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Va., in 1825; studied law; racer; member of the Chicago City Council 1906-1923; served was admitted to the bar in 1826 and commenced practice as commissioner of compensation for the city of Chicago in Greenbrier County; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1833 Biographies 689

and continued the practice of law; established the Farmers was also interested in coal mining; appointed postmaster and Mechanics’ Advocate; chief clerk of the State house of of Morgantown May 25, 1911, and served until April 14, representatives in 1836; member of the State house of rep- 1915, when a successor was appointed; city mayor in 1916 resentatives in 1836 and 1837; appointed district attorney and 1917; declined renomination for mayor; elected as a for St. Louis in 1837; unsuccessful candidate for the State Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding house of representatives in 1838; elected judge of the crimi- Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful nal court in 1839 and served until his resignation in 1842; candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Con- elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and to the three gress; organized a coal company in Washington, D.C., and succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1851); chair- served as president until appointed a member of the Board man, Committee on Private Land Claims (Twenty-ninth of Veterans Appeals of the Veterans’ Administration in 1935 Congress), Committee on Public Lands (Thirty-first Con- and served until his death in Washington, D.C., on Sep- gress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1850 to the tember 15, 1936; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery, Mor- Thirty-second Congress; appointed Minister Resident to New gantown, W.Va. Granada by President Pierce December 13, 1854; appointed commissioner to Paraguay by President Buchanan Sep- BOWMAN, Selwyn Zadock, a Representative from Mas- tember 9, 1858, and served until February 10, 1859; re- sachusetts; born in Charlestown, Middlesex County, Mass., sumed the practice of law; died in St. Louis, Mo., July 19, May 11, 1840; attended the Charlestown public schools; 1874; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery. moved to Somerville, Mass., with his parents in 1855; was graduated from Harvard University in 1860 and from its BOWLING, William Bismarck, a Representative from law school in 1863; was admitted to the bar in 1863 and Alabama; born near Iron City, Calhoun County, Ala., Sep- commenced practice in Boston, Mass., and continued his tember 24, 1870; attended the common schools, and was residence in Somerville, Mass.; member of the State house graduated from the State normal school, Jacksonville, Ala., of representatives in 1870, 1871, and again in 1875; city in 1892; taught in the public schools of Montgomery, Ala., solicitor of Somerville, Mass., in 1872 and 1873; served in 1893-1895 and of Columbus, Ga., 1896-1899; moved to La- the State senate in 1876 and 1877; elected as a Republican fayette, Chambers County, Ala.; studied law; was admitted to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, to the bar in 1900 and commenced practice in Lafayette; 1879-March 3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate for reelection solicitor of the fifth judicial circuit of Alabama 1905-1920; in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; returned to Somer- member of the board of trustees of Alabama Polytechnic ville, Mass., and resumed the practice of law in Boston, Institute at Auburn; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- Mass.; again served as city solicitor of Somerville, Mass., sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation 1888-1897; moved to Cohasset, Mass., in 1914, and contin- of J. Thomas Heflin; reelected to the Sixty-seventh and to ued the practice of law in Boston, Mass.; died in Fra- the three succeeding Congresses and served from December mingham, Mass., September 30, 1928; interment in Mount 14, 1920, until his resignation effective August 16, 1928, Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. having been appointed judge for the fifth judicial circuit of Alabama, in which capacity he served until his death; BOWMAN, Thomas, a Representative from Iowa; born died in Lafayette, Ala., on December 27, 1946; interment in Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Maine, May 25, 1848; moved in Lafayette Cemetery. to Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1868; engaged in mercantile pur- suits; elected treasurer of Pottawattamie County in 1875, BOWMAN, Charles Calvin, a Representative from Penn- and reelected in 1877 and 1879; mayor of Council Bluffs sylvania; born in Troy, Rensselaer County, N.Y., November in 1882; appointed postmaster in 1885 and served until 14, 1852; attended the public schools and Lansingburg Acad- 1889, when he resigned; purchased controlling ownership emy, Troy, N.Y.; learned the woodworking trade; was grad- of the Council Bluffs Globe in 1883; elected as a Democrat uated in civil engineering from Union College, Schenectady, to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); N.Y., in 1875; engaged in civil engineering work for the was not a candidate for renomination in 1892; again post- State of Massachusetts at Danvers in 1875; organized the master of Council Bluffs 1904-1908; engaged in railroad con- western shipping department of the Pennsylvania Coal Co., tracting; died in Council Bluffs, Iowa, December 1, 1917; Pittston, Pa., in 1876, which he managed until 1883; served interment in Pine Grove Cemetery, Dresden Mills, Maine. as general manager of the Florence Coal Co., in 1883 and 1884, later operating as an independent miner and shipper BOWNE, Obadiah, a Representative from New York; of anthracite coal; mayor of the city of Pittston in 1886; born near Richmond, Richmond County, Staten Island, N.Y., also served as a member of the city council for sixteen terms; May 19, 1822; attended private schools, and was a student delegate to the Independent Republican State convention at Princeton College 1838-1840; held several local offices; in 1890 and to the Republican State convention in 1898; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March presented credentials as a Republican Member-elect to the 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); declined to be a candidate for re- Sixty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1911, to nomination in 1852; quarantine commissioner 1857-1859; December 12, 1912, when the seat was declared vacant; presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1864; died unsuccessful candidate for election in 1912 to the Sixty- in Richmond Village, Staten Island, N.Y., April 27, 1874; third Congress; resumed the coal business; died in Pittston, interment in St. Andrew’s Cemetery. Pa., July 3, 1941; interment in Pittston Cemetery. BOWNE, Samuel Smith, a Representative from New BOWMAN, Frank Llewellyn, a Representative from York; born in New Rochelle, Westchester County, N.Y., April West Virginia; born in Masontown, Fayette County, Pa., 11, 1800; moved to Otsego County with his parents, who January 21, 1879; attended the public schools; moved with settled near Morris, N.Y.; attended the common schools; en- his parents to Morgantown, W.Va.; was graduated from the gaged in agricultural pursuits; moved to Laurens, Otsego University of West Virginia at Morgantown in 1902; teller County, in 1825; studied law; was admitted to the bar in in a bank at Morgantown from 1902 until 1904, when he 1832 and commenced practice in Laurens; moved to Coopers- resigned to take up the study of law; was admitted to the town, N.Y.; member of the State assembly in 1834; elected bar in 1905 and commenced practice in Morgantown, W.Va.; as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 690 Biographical Directory

1841-March 3, 1843); was not a candidate for renomination Delaware Supreme Court 1897-1921 and ex officio judicial in 1842; moved to Rochester, N.Y., in 1846 and continued reporter 1909-1921; retired June 15, 1921; elected as a Dem- the practice of his profession; judge of Otsego County 1851- ocrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1923-March 1855; resumed the practice of law; died on his farm near 3, 1925); renominated by acclamation but was unsuccessful Morris, Otsego County, N.Y., July 9, 1865; interment in for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; resumed Friends Burying Ground. the practice of law until retirement from active practice in 1936; died in Dover, Del., February 6, 1942; interment BOWRING, Eva Kelly, a Senator from Nebraska; born in Christ Church Cemetery. in Nevada, Vernon County, Mo., January 9, 1892; rancher; vice chairwoman of the Nebraska Republican Central Com- BOYCE, William Waters, a Representative from South mittee 1946-1954; director of the Women’s Division of the Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., October 24, 1818; at- Republican Party in Nebraska 1946-1954; appointed on April tended South Carolina College (now the University of South 16, 1954, as a Republican to the United States Senate to Carolina) at Columbia and the University of Virginia at fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dwight Palmer Gris- Charlottesville; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1839 wold, and served until November 7, 1954; was not a can- and practiced in Winnsboro, S.C.; member of the South didate for election to fill the vacancy; member of the Na- Carolina state house of representatives, 1846-1847; elected tional Advisory Council, National Institutes of Health 1954- as a Democrat to the Thirty-third and to the three suc- 1958, 1960-1961; appointed a member of the Board of Parole, ceeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1853, until Department of Justice 1956-1964; died in Gordon, Nebr., his retirement on December 21, 1860; chairman, Committee January 8, 1985; interment in Gordon Cemetery. on Elections (Thirty-fifth Congress); appointed a delegate for South Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress BOX, John Calvin, a Representative from Texas; born January 4, 1861; elected as a member of the First and near Crockett, Houston County, Tex., March 28, 1871; at- Second Confederate Congresses 1862-1864; moved to Wash- tended the country schools, and Alexander Collegiate Insti- ington, D.C., in 1866 and practiced law until his retirement tute (later Lon Morris College), Kilgore, Tex.; studied law; a few years before his death; died at his country home, was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice ‘‘Ashland,’’ in Fairfax County, Va., February 3, 1890; inter- in Lufkin, Tex.; moved to Jacksonville, Cherokee County, ment in the Episcopal Cemetery, Winnsboro, Fairfield Coun- Tex., in 1897 and continued the practice of his profession; ty, S.C. also a licensed Methodist minister; judge of the Cherokee County Court 1898-1901; mayor of Jacksonville 1902-1905; BOYD, Adam, a Representative from New Jersey; born member of the Democratic State committee 1908-1910; mem- in Mendham, N.J., March 21, 1746; moved to Bergen County ber of the board of education and served as chairman 1913- about 1770 and to Hackensack a few years later; member 1918; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and to the of the board of freeholders and justices in 1773, 1784, 1791, five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1931); 1794, and 1798; sheriff of Bergen County 1778-1781 and unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1930; resumed again in 1789; member of the State house of assembly in the practice of law in Jacksonville, Tex., until his death 1782, 1783, 1787, 1794, and 1795; judge of the court of there May 17, 1941; interment in the City Cemetery. common pleas of Bergen County 1803-1805; elected as a Republican to the Eighth Congress (March 4, 1803-March BOXER, Barbara, a Representative and a Senator from 3, 1805); elected to the Tenth Congress to fill the vacancy California; born Barbara Levy in Brooklyn, Kings County, caused by the death of Ezra Darby; reelected to the Eleventh N.Y., November 11, 1940; attended public schools in Brook- and Twelfth Congresses and served from March 8, 1808, lyn; graduated, Wingate High School 1958; B.A., Brooklyn to March 3, 1813; again judge of the court of common pleas College 1962; stockbroker 1962-1965; newspaper editor 1972- 1813-1833; died in Hackensack, Bergen County, N.J., August 1974; congressional aide 1974-1976; elected member, Board 15, 1835; interment in the First Reformed Church Cemetery. of Supervisors, Marin County, Calif. 1976-1982; delegate, California State Democratic convention 1983; elected as a BOYD, Alexander, a Representative from New York; Democrat to the Ninety-eighth and to the four succeeding born in Albany, N.Y., September 14, 1764; moved to Middle- Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1993); was not a burg, Schoharie County, N.Y., and engaged in agricultural candidate for reelection to the House of Representatives in pursuits; elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress 1992; elected to the United States Senate in 1992; reelected (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); died in the town of in 1998 and 2004 for term ending January 3, 2011. Esperence, Schoharie County, N.Y., April 8, 1857; interment Bibliography: Boxer, Barbara. Strangers in the Senate: Politics and the in Schoharie Cemetery, Schoharie, N.Y. New Revolution of Women in America. Washington, D.C.: National Press Books, 1994. BOYD, F. Allen, Jr., a Representative from Florida; born in Valdosta, Lowndes County, Ga., June 6, 1945; graduated BOYCE, William Henry, a Representative from Dela- from Jefferson County High School, Monticello, Fla., 1963; ware; born at Peppers Mills, near Laurel, Sussex County, B.S., Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla., 1969; Del., November 28, 1855; attended the public schools and United States Army, 1969-1971; farmer; member of the Flor- Laurel Academy; was principal of the public schools at Lau- ida state house of representatives, 1989-1996; elected as a rel 1875-1880 and at Oxford, Md., in 1880 and 1881; re- Democrat to the One Hundred Fifth and to the three suc- corder of deeds for Sussex County at Georgetown 1881-1886; ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1997-present). studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1887 and practiced in Georgetown, Del., until 1897; president of the board of BOYD, John Frank, a Representative from Nebraska; education 1883-1886; captain of Company G, Delaware Na- born in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pa., August 8, 1853; tional Guard, 1887-1890; president of the town commis- moved with his parents to Henry County, Ill., in 1857; at- sioners 1895-1897; chairman of the Sussex County Demo- tended the public schools and Abingdon (Ill.) College; studied cratic committee 1893-1897; delegate to the Democratic Na- law; was admitted to the bar in 1878 and commenced prac- tional Conventions in 1896 and 1924; appointed secretary tice in Galva, Ill.; moved to Nebraska in 1883 and settled of State of Delaware January 19, 1897, and served until in Oakdale, Antelope County; prosecuting attorney of Ante- June 17, 1897, when he resigned; associate judge of the lope County, Nebr., 1888-1894; judge of the Ninth Judicial Biographies 691

District Court of Nebraska 1900-1907; moved to Neligh, An- pointed Minister Resident and consul general to Siam by telope County, Nebr., in 1901; elected as a Republican to President Harrison on October 1, 1890, and served until the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1909); unsuc- October 26, 1892; died in Springfield, Greene County, Mo., cessful candidate for reelection in 1908 to the Sixty-first June 22, 1894; interment in the Hazelwood Cemetery. Congress; resumed the practice of law in Neligh, Nebr., until 1929, when he retired and moved to Los Angeles, Calif.; BOYD, Thomas Alexander, a Representative from Illi- died in Los Angeles, Calif., May 28, 1945; interment in nois; born near Bedford, Adams County, Pa., June 25, 1830; Forest Lawn Cemetery. attended the public schools; was graduated from Marshall College, Mercersburg, Pa., in 1848; studied law in Cham- BOYD, John Huggins, a Representative from New York; bersburg, Pa.; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- born in Salem, N.Y., July 31, 1799; attended the common tice in Bedford, Pa.; moved to Lewistown, Ill., in 1856 and schools, and was graduated from Washington Academy, engaged in the practice of law until 1861; during the Civil Salem, N.Y., in 1818; studied law; was admitted to the bar War enlisted in the Seventeenth Regiment, Illinois Infantry, in 1823 and commenced practice in Salem, N.Y., but shortly in 1861 and obtained the commission of captain; member afterward moved to Whitehall, N.Y.; elected justice of the of the State senate in 1866 and was reelected in 1870; peace in 1828 and served for many years; member of the elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth State assembly in 1840; supervisor of Whitehall in 1845, Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1881); was not a can- 1848, and 1849; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second didate for renomination in 1880; resumed the practice of Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); special surrogate law; died in Lewistown, Fulton County, Ill., May 28, 1897; of Washington County 1857-1859; elected president of the interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. village; resumed the practice of law; died in Whitehall, BOYDEN, Nathaniel, a Representative from North Caro- Washington County, N.Y., on July 2, 1868; interment in lina; born in Conway, Mass., August 16, 1796; attended the Evergreen Cemetery, Salem, N.Y. common schools; served in the War of 1812; was graduated BOYD, Linn, a Representative from Kentucky; born in from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1821; moved to Nashville, Tenn., November 22, 1800; pursued preparatory Stokes County, N.C., in 1822; taught school for several studies; moved with his parents to New Design, Trigg Coun- years; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; ty, Ky.; engaged in agricultural pursuits in Calloway Coun- member of the State house of commons in 1838 and 1840; ty; member of the State house of representatives 1827-1832; moved to Salisbury, N.C., in 1842 and continued the practice returned to Trigg County in 1834; elected as a Jacksonian of law; served in the State senate in 1844; elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1849); was not a candidate for renomination in 1848; re- 1837); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1836 to the sumed the practice of law; member of the State constitu- Twenty-fifth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty- tional convention of 1865; upon the readmission of North sixth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, Carolina to representation was elected as a Conservative 1839-March 3, 1855); chairman, Committee on Accounts to the Fortieth Congress and served from July 13, 1868, (Thirtieth Congress), Committee on Territories (Thirty-first to March 3, 1869; unsuccessfully contested the election of Congress); Speaker of the House of Representatives (Thirty- Francis E. Shober to the Forty-first Congress; resumed the second and Thirty-third Congresses); moved to Paducah, Ky., practice of law until elected associate justice of the supreme in 1852; elected Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky in 1859, court of North Carolina in 1872 and served until his death but when the senate convened was too ill to preside over in Salisbury, N.C., November 20, 1873; interment in the its deliberations; died in Paducah, Ky., December 17, 1859; Lutheran Cemetery. interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. Bibliography: Hamilton, Holman. ‘‘Kentucky’s Linn Boyd and the Dra- BOYER, Benjamin Markley, a Representative from matic Days of 1850.’’ Kentucky Historical Society Register 55 (July 1957): Pennsylvania; born in Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pa., 185-95. January 22, 1823; attended the common schools, and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadel- BOYD, Sempronius Hamilton, a Representative from phia in 1841; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1844 Missouri; born near Nashville, Williamson County, Tenn., and practiced; deputy attorney general of Montgomery Coun- May 28, 1828; moved to Missouri in 1840 with his parents, ty 1848-1850; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth who settled on a farm near Springfield, Greene County; and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1869); educated by private tutors; moved to California in 1849, was not a candidate for renomination in 1868; appointed where he prospected for gold and taught school; returned judge of Montgomery County Court in 1882 and served until to Missouri in 1854; clerk of the court of Greene County his death in Norristown, Pa., August 16, 1887; interment 1854-1856; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1856 in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa. and commenced practice in Springfield, Mo.; mayor of Springfield in 1856; during the Civil War raised the Twenty- BOYER, Lewis Leonard, a Representative from Illinois; fourth Missouri Infantry and served as colonel until his born on a farm near Richfield, Richfield Township, Adams election to Congress; elected as an Unconditional Unionist County, Ill., May 19, 1886; attended the rural schools; to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, taught school at Douglas, Franklin, Pin Oak, and Liberty, 1865); chairman, Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Ill., 1904-1915, and, while teaching, studied civil engineer- Business (Thirty-eighth Congress); appointed judge of the ing; moved to Quincy, Ill., in 1915 and engaged in engineer- court of the fourteenth judicial district in 1865; member ing as county superintendent of highways of Adams County, of the Republican National Committee 1864-1868; delegate Ill., from March 1915 until December 1936; elected as a to the Republican National Convention in 1864; interested Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1937- in building and operating the Southwest Pacific Railroad January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1867-1874; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Con- 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; unsuccessful candidate gress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); chairman, Committee for the State senate in 1940 and 1942; died in Quincy, on Revolutionary Claims (Forty-first Congress); operated a Ill., March 12, 1944; interment in Zander Cemetery, Liberty, wagon factory 1874-1876; resumed the practice of law; ap- Ill. 692 Biographical Directory

BOYKIN, Frank William, a Representative from Ala- tice in Lancaster, Ky.; member of the State house of rep- bama; born in Bladon Springs, Choctaw County, Ala., Feb- resentatives in 1800; elected as a Republican to the Eighth, ruary 21, 1885; attended the public schools; moved to Ninth, and Tenth Congresses (March 4, 1803-March 3, Fairford, Ala., in 1890 and was employed as a clerk in 1809); one of the managers appointed by the House of Rep- a store and later as store manager; moved to Malcolm, Ala., resentatives, in January 1804, to conduct the impeachment in 1905 and engaged in the manufacture of railroad cross proceedings against John Pickering, and, in December of ties; moved to Mobile, Ala., in 1915 and was occupied with the same year, against Samuel Chase; chairman, Committee real estate, farming, livestock, timber, lumber, and naval on Public Land Claims (Ninth and Tenth Congresses); ap- stores in southern Alabama; during the First World War pointed Governor of Illinois Territory in 1809, but declined; served as an official in shipbuilding companies; elected as judge of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky from April 1809 a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Congress to fill the va- to April 1810, serving as chief justice from April 1810 to cancy caused by the resignation of John McDuffie; reelected November 8, 1826, when he resigned; United States judge to the Seventy-fifth and to the twelve succeeding Congresses for the district of Kentucky from November 9, 1826, until and served from July 30, 1935, to January 3, 1963; chair- his death near Danville, Boyle County, Ky., February 28, man, Committee on Patents (Seventy-eighth and Seventy- 1835; interment in Bellevue Cemetery. ninth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress; returned to his many BRABSON, Reese Bowen (uncle of Charles Keith Bell), business activities; died in Washington, D.C., March 12, a Representative from Tennessee; born at Brabsons Ferry, 1969; interment in Pine Crest Cemetery, Mobile, Ala. near Knoxville, Tenn., September 16, 1817; attended the Dandridge Academy, Dandridge, Tenn.; was graduated from BOYLAN, John Joseph, a Representative from New Maryville College, Maryville, Tenn., in 1840; studied law; York; born in New York City September 20, 1878; attended was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice the public schools, Cathedral School, De La Salle Institute, in Chattanooga, Tenn.; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; and College, all in New York City; employed member of the State house of representatives in 1851 and as a postal clerk and afterward engaged in the real estate 1852; elected as a candidate of the Opposition Party to the business; member of the State assembly 1909-1913; served Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); was in the State senate 1913-1922; elected as a Democrat to not a candidate for renomination in 1860; engaged in the the Sixty-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses practice of his profession until his death in Chattanooga, and served from March 4, 1923, until his death; was not Tenn., August 16, 1863; interment in the Citizens Cemetery. a candidate for renomination in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth BRACE, Jonathan, a Representative from Connecticut; Congress; died in New York City, October 5, 1938; interment born in Harwinton, Conn., November 12, 1754; pursued pre- in Calvary Cemetery, Long Island City, N.Y. paratory studies; was graduated from Yale College in 1779; BOYLE, Charles Augustus, a Representative from Illi- studied law; was admitted to the bar in Bennington, Vt., nois; born in Spring Lake, Ottawa County, Mich., August in 1779 and commenced practice in Pawlet, Vt.; moved to 13, 1907; after leaving the farm of his parents he graduated Manchester, Vt., in 1782 and continued the practice of law; from Mount Carmel High School, Chicago, Ill., in 1925; member of the council of censors to revise the constitution; worked for the Chicago Motor Coach Co. while a student; prosecuting attorney for Bennington County 1784-1785; was graduated from Loyola University, Chicago, Ill., in 1930 moved to Glastonbury, Conn., in January 1786 but was not and from Loyola Law School in 1933; was admitted to the admitted to the Connecticut bar until 1790; member of the Illinois bar in 1934 and commenced the practice of law in general assembly 1788 and 1791-1794 and was chosen as- Chicago, Ill.; zone attorney for the Federal Housing Adminis- sistant in the council in May 1798; moved to Hartford, tration in 1937 and 1938; elected as a Democrat to the Conn., in 1794; judge of the city court from 1797 until 1815, Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fifth, and Eighty-sixth Congresses and with the exception of two years; elected as a Federalist served from January 3, 1955, until his death in an auto- to the Fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death mobile accident in Chicago, Ill., November 4, 1959; inter- of Joshua Coit; reelected to the Sixth Congress and served ment in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Ill. from December 3, 1798, until his resignation in 1800; assist- ant in the council of the State 1802-1818; appointed pros- BOYLE, Charles Edmund, a Representative from Penn- ecuting attorney for Hartford County in December 1807 and sylvania; born in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pa., February served until May 1809, when he resigned; appointed judge 4, 1836; attended the common schools, and Waynesburg Col- of the county court and of probate in May 1809; continued lege, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pa.; studied law; was as judge of the county court until 1821 and as judge of admitted to the bar in December 1861 and practiced; elected probate until 1824; mayor of Hartford 1815-1824; member district attorney for Fayette County in 1862; member of of the State senate in 1819 and 1820; died in Hartford, the State house of representatives in 1865 and 1866; presi- Conn., August 26, 1837; interment in the Old North Ceme- dent of the Democratic State convention in 1867 and 1871; tery. delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876 and 1880; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty- BRACKENRIDGE, Henry Marie, a Representative from ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); was not Pennsylvania; born in Pittsburgh, Pa., May 11, 1786; in- a candidate for renomination in 1886; appointed judge of structed by his father and private tutors; attended a French the Territory of Washington in September 1888 and served academy at St. Genevieve, La.; studied law; was admitted until his death in Seattle, Wash., December 15, 1888; inter- to the bar in 1806 and practiced in Somerset, Pa., until ment in Oak Grove Cemetery, Uniontown, Pa. 1810; appointed deputy attorney general of the Territory of Orleans (Louisiana) in 1811; district judge of Louisiana BOYLE, John, a Representative from Kentucky; born at in 1812; appointed secretary of a mission to South America ‘‘Castle Woods,’’ Botetourt County, Va., October 28, 1774; in 1817; judge for the western district of Florida 1821-1832; moved with his father to Whitleys Station, Ky., in 1779; returned to Pennsylvania in 1832 and became owner of a educated by private tutors and in private schools; studied large tract of land upon which he founded the town of law; was admitted to the bar in 1797 and commenced prac- Tarentum, Pa.; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Con- Biographies 693

gress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Richard crat to the Eighty-sixth and to the ten succeeding Con- Biddle and served from October 13, 1840, to March 3, 1841; gresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1981); majority whip unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1840; member (Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixth Congresses); unsuccessful can- of the commission under the treaty with Mexico in 1841; didate for reelection to the Ninety-seventh Congress in 1980; engaged in literary pursuits until his death in Pittsburgh, president, New York University, New York, N.Y., 1981-1992. Pa., January 18, 1871; interment in Prospect Cemetery, Bibliography: Brademas, John, with Lynne P. Brown. The Politics of Brackenridge, Pa. Education: Conflict and Consensus on Capitol Hill. 1987. Reprint, Norman: Bibliography: Keller, William F. T he Nation’s Advocate: Henry Marie University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. Brackenridge and Young America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1956. BRADFORD, Allen Alexander, a Delegate from the Ter- ritory of Colorado; born in Friendship, Maine, July 23, 1815; BRADBURY, George, a Representative from Massachu- moved to Missouri in 1841; studied law; was admitted to setts; born in Falmouth, Mass., October 10, 1770; was grad- the bar and practiced; clerk of the circuit court of Atchison uated from Harvard University in 1789; studied law; was County, Mo., 1845-1851; moved to Iowa and was judge of admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Portland, the sixth judicial district 1852-1855; moved to the Territory Maine (until 1820 a district of Massachusetts); member of of Nebraska; served as a member of the Territorial house the Massachusetts house of representatives 1806-1812; elect- of representatives in 1856, 1857, and 1858; moved to the ed as a Federalist to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Con- Territory of Colorado in 1860; appointed judge of the su- gresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817); unsuccessful can- preme court of the Territory by President Lincoln on June didate for renomination in 1816; resumed the practice of 6, 1862; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth Con- law; associate clerk of the Portland Court 1817-1820; mem- gress (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); resumed the practice ber of the State senate in 1820; died in Portland, Maine, of law; elected to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869- November 7, 1823; interment in Eastern Cemetery. March 3, 1871); engaged in the practice of law in Pueblo, Colo., until his death there March 12, 1888; interment in BRADBURY, James Ware, a Senator from Maine; born the City Cemetery. in Parsonsfield, Maine, June 10, 1802; attended the common schools and Gorham Academy; graduated from Bowdoin Col- BRADFORD, Taul, a Representative from Alabama; born lege, Brunswick, Maine, in 1825; principal of Hallowell in Talladega, Talladega County, Ala., January 20, 1835; at- Academy and founder of the first normal school in New tended the local school; was graduated from the University England, at Effingham, N.H., in 1829; studied law; admitted of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1854; studied law; was admit- to the bar and commenced practice in Augusta, Maine, in ted to the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in Talladega, 1830; prosecuting attorney 1834-1838; elected as a Democrat Ala.; served in the Confederate Army as major of the Tenth to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1847, Regiment, Alabama Infantry, and subsequently became lieu- until March 3, 1853; declined to be a candidate for reelec- tenant colonel of the Thirtieth Regiment, Alabama Infantry; tion; chairman, Committee on Printing (Thirtieth Congress), member of the State house of representatives in 1871 and Committee on Retrenchment (Thirty-first and Thirty-second 1872; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress Congresses); trustee of Bowdoin College 1861; president of (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for the Maine Historical Society 1867-1887; practiced law in renomination in 1876; continued the practice of law in Augusta, Maine; died in Augusta, Maine, January 6, 1901; Talladega, Ala., until his death on October 28, 1883; inter- interment in Forest Grove Cemetery. ment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Talladega, Ala. Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography. BRADFORD, William, a Senator from Rhode Island; BRADBURY, Theophilus, a Representative from Massa- born in Plympton, Plymouth County, Mass., November 4, chusetts; born in Newbury, Mass., November 13, 1739; was 1729; studied medicine in Hingham, Mass., and afterwards graduated from Harvard College in 1757; taught school and practiced in Warren, R.I.; moved to Bristol, R.I.; abandoned studied law in Portland, Maine; was admitted to the bar the profession of medicine and studied law; admitted to the and commenced practice in Portland in 1761; moved to New- Rhode Island bar in 1767 and commenced practice in Bristol; buryport, Mass., in 1764 and continued the practice of law; member, State house of representatives for several terms member of the State senate 1791-1794; elected as a Fed- between 1761 and 1803, serving as speaker on several occa- eralist to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses and served from sions; member of the Rhode Island Committee of Cor- March 4, 1795, until July 24, 1797, when he resigned; ap- respondence in 1773; deputy governor of Rhode Island 1775- pointed judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts in 1778; elected as a Delegate to the Continental Congress 1797, which position he held until his death; member of in 1776 but did not attend; elected to the United States the electoral college in 1800; died in Newburyport, Mass., Senate and served from March 4, 1793, until October 1797, September 6, 1803; interment in Newburyport Cemetery. when he resigned; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Fifth Congress; retired to his home in BRADEMAS, John, a Representative from Indiana; born Bristol, R.I., and died there on July 6, 1808; interment in in Mishawaka, Saint Joseph County, Ind., March 2, 1927; East Burial Ground. graduated from Central High School, South Bend, Ind.; grad- uated from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1949; BRADLEY, Edward, a Representative from Michigan; Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1954; United States born in East Bloomfield, Ontario County, N.Y., in April Navy, 1945-1946; staff for United States Senator Pat McNa- 1808; attended the common schools and the local academy mara of Michigan, 1955; staff for United States Representa- in Canandaigua; associate judge of the common pleas court tive Thomas L. Ashley of Ohio, 1955; executive assistant of Ontario County, N.Y., in 1836; moved to Detroit, Mich., to Adlai E. Stevenson in 1955 and 1956; assistant professor, in 1839; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1841 and Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Ind., 1957- 1958; member commenced practice in Marshall, Calhoun County, Mich.; of congressional delegation to First Inter-American Con- prosecuting attorney of Calhoun County in 1842; member ference, Lima, Peru, 1959; unsuccessful Democratic can- of the State senate in 1842 and 1843; elected as a Democrat didate for election to the Eighty-fourth Congress in 1954 to the Thirtieth Congress and served from March 4, 1847, and to the Eighty-fifth Congress in 1956; elected as a Demo- until his death on August 5, 1847, in New York City while 694 Biographical Directory

en route to Washington, D.C., before the assembling of Con- to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, gress; interment in the Congressional Cemetery, Wash- 1873-March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for renomination ington, D.C. in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; again engaged in the lumber business in Bay City and also was instrumental BRADLEY, Frederick Van Ness, a Representative from in establishing the first beet-sugar factory in the State; died Michigan; born in Chicago, Ill., April 12, 1898; moved to in Bay City, Bay County, Mich., November 8, 1906; inter- Rogers City, Mich., in 1910; attended the public schools, ment in Elm Lawn Cemetery. Rogers City (Mich.) High School, and Montclair (N.J.) Acad- emy; served in the Student Army Training Corps at BRADLEY, Stephen Row (father of William Czar Brad- Plattsburg, N.Y., in 1918; was graduated from Cornell Uni- ley), a Senator from Vermont; born in Wallingford, Conn., versity, Ithaca, N.Y., in 1921; salesman with the Michigan February 20, 1754; graduated from Yale College in 1775; Limestone and Chemical Co., Buffalo, N.Y., 1921-1923, and studied law; admitted to the bar in 1779 and commenced purchasing agent 1928-1938; also purchasing agent, Bradley practice in Westminster, Vt.; captain of a volunteer company Transportation Co., Rogers City, Mich., 1924-1938; elected during the Revolutionary War; State’s attorney for Cum- as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the four suc- berland County 1780; register of probate for Westminster ceeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until 1782; appointed judge of Windham County 1783; member, his death May 24, 1947, at New London, Conn., while there State house of representatives 1785, serving as speaker; ap- as a member of the Board of Visitors to the Coast Guard pointed associate judge of the superior court of Vermont Academy; chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and 1788; member of the city council of Westminster 1798; upon Fisheries (Eightieth Congress); interment in Rogers City Me- the admission of Vermont as a State into the Union was elected as an Anti-Administration to the United States Sen- morial Park, Rogers City, Mich. ate and served from October 17, 1791, to March 3, 1795; BRADLEY, Jeb, a Representative from New Hampshire; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1795; again elected born in Rumford, Oxford County, Maine, on October 20, to the United States Senate, as a Democratic Republican, 1952; B.A., Tufts University, Medford, Mass., 1974; business in 1801 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of owner; member of the New Hampshire state house of rep- Elijah Paine; reelected in 1807, and served from October resentatives, 1990-2002; elected as a Republican to the One 15, 1801, to March 3, 1813; served as President pro tempore Hundred Eighth Congress (January 3, 2003-present). of the Senate during the Seventh and Tenth Congresses; retired from public life and returned to Westminster; moved BRADLEY, Michael Joseph, a Representative from to Walpole, N.H., in 1818 and died there December 9, 1830; Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 24, 1897; at- interment in the Old Cemetery, Westminster, Vt. tended the parochial and public high schools; engaged as Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- a telegrapher 1914-1917; during the First World War served ography; Bradley, Stephen Row. Vermont’s Appeal to the Candid and Im- overseas as a chief radio electrician in the United States partial World. Hartford: Hudson Goodwin, 1780. Navy 1917-1919; engaged in the security and brokerage BRADLEY, Thomas Joseph, a Representative from New business in Philadelphia, Pa., 1921-1935; deputy insurance York; born in New York City January 2, 1870; attended commissioner of Pennsylvania 1935-1937; unsuccessful can- the public schools; was graduated from the College of the didate for election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; City of New York in 1887; taught in the public schools elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and to the four of New York City from 1887 until 1891; was graduated succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1947); from the law department of the University of New York, was not a candidate for renomination in 1946 to the Eight- New York City, in 1889; was admitted to the bar in 1891 ieth Congress; chairman of the Democratic county executive and commenced practice in New York City; deputy assistant committee of Philadelphia, 1946-1948; collector of customs district attorney of the county of New York 1892-1895; re- for district No. 11, Port of Philadelphia, 1948-1953; deputy sumed the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the managing director, city of Philadelphia, 1953-1955; member Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1897-March of Pennsylvania Navigation Commission for the Delaware 3, 1901); was not a candidate for renomination in 1900; River, 1954-1964; chairman, Board of Fair Labor Standards, continued the practice of law until his death in New York city of Philadelphia, 1954-1962; became a member of Board City April 1, 1901; interment in Calvary Cemetery. of Revision of Taxes, city of Philadelphia, April 1955; retired BRADLEY, Thomas Wilson, a Representative from New in 1976; resided in Philadelphia, Pa., where he died Novem- York; born in Yorkshire, England, April 6, 1844; immigrated ber 27, 1979; interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, to the United States in 1846 with his parents, who settled Pa. in Walden, Orange County, N.Y.; attended school until nine BRADLEY, Nathan Ball, a Representative from Michi- years of age; during the Civil War entered the Union Army gan; born in Lee, Berkshire County, Mass., May 28, 1831; as a private; promoted to captain in the One Hundred and moved with his parents to Lorain County, Ohio, in 1835; Twenty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry; was attended the common schools; moved to Wisconsin in 1849; aide-de-camp to Major General Mott, Third Division, Second Army Corps; awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor employed in a sawmill in the pine region; returned to Ohio ‘‘for gallantry at Chancellorsville’’; was brevetted major of in 1850 and built and operated a sawmill until 1852, when United States Volunteers; member of the State house of he moved to Lexington, Mich., and engaged in the manufac- assembly in 1876; delegate to the Republican National Con- ture of lumber; moved to St. Charles, in the Saginaw Valley, ventions in 1892, 1896, and 1900; elected as a Republican in 1855 and engaged in the lumber industry; purchased to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses a mill in Bay City, Mich., which he operated from 1858 (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1913); was not a candidate for to 1864; engaged in the salt industry in Bay City; justice renomination in 1912; engaged in banking; president and of the peace three terms, a supervisor one term, an alder- treasurer of the New York Knife Co.; died in Walden, N.Y., man three terms, and the first mayor of Bay City after May 30, 1920; interment in Wallkill Valley Cemetery. it obtained its charter in 1865; member of the State senate 1866-1868; engaged in banking in 1867; vice president of BRADLEY, William Czar (son of Stephen Row Bradley), the First National Bank of Bay City; elected as a Republican a Representative from Vermont; born in Westminster, Vt., Biographies 695

March 23, 1782; received his early education in the schools 28, 1884; moved with his parents to Milnor, N.Dak., in July of Cheshire, Conn., and Charlestown, N.H., and for a short 1884 and to Forman, N.Dak., in 1891; attended the public time attended Yale College, New Haven, Conn.; studied law; schools, and Hamlin University, St. Paul, Minn.; deputy reg- was admitted to the bar in 1802 and commenced practice istrant of deeds of Sargent County, N.Dak., in 1902 and in Westminster; prosecuting attorney for Windham County 1903; was graduated from the United States Naval Academy 1804-1811; member of the State house of representatives in 1906; during the First World War served as gunnery in 1806, 1807, and 1819; member of the Governor’s council officer and as chief of the Explosives Section, Bureau of in 1812; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress Ordnance, Navy Department; awarded the Congressional (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); agent of the United States Medal of Honor; Governor of Guam 1929-1931; captain of under the treaty of Ghent to fix the boundary line between the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard 1933-1935; attached to the Maine and Canada 1815-1820; elected to the Eighteenth Board of Inspection and Survey, Pacific Coast Section, 1940- and Nineteenth Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1827); 1946; in 1946 retired from the United States Navy because resumed the practice of law; unsuccessful Democratic can- of physical incapacity incurred in line of duty; took up resi- didate for Governor in 1830, 1834, and 1838; again a mem- dence in Long Beach, Calif., in 1931; elected as a Republican ber of the State house of representatives in 1850; presi- to the Eightieth Congress (January 3, 1947-January 3, dential elector on the Republican ticket in 1856; member 1949); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 of the State constitutional convention in 1857; retired from to the Eighty-first Congress; assistant to the president of the practice of his profession in 1858; died in Westminster, the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., 1949-1952; member of the Windham County, Vt., March 3, 1867; interment in the Old State assembly from 1952 until his death; died in Santa Cemetery. Barbara, Calif., August 27, 1954; interment in Fort Rose- crans National Cemetery, San Diego, Calif. BRADLEY, William O’Connell, a Senator from Ken- tucky; born near Lancaster, Garrard County, Ky., March BRADSHAW, Samuel Carey, a Representative from 18, 1847; educated by private tutors and at a private school Pennsylvania; born in Plumstead, Bucks County, Pa., June in Somerset, Ky.; during the Civil War entered the Union 10, 1809; attended the public schools; was graduated from Army at the age of fifteen, but because of his youth served Pennsylvania Medical College in 1833 and practiced in only a short time; studied law and was licensed to practice Quakertown, Bucks County, Pa.; elected as a Whig to the in 1865; prosecuting attorney of Garrard County 1870; ap- Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); un- pointed Minister to Korea in 1889 but declined; member successful candidate for reelection in 1856 to the Thirty- of the Republican National Committee 1890-1896; Repub- fifth Congress; died in Quakertown, Pa., June 9, 1872; inter- lican Governor of Kentucky 1895-1899; elected as a Repub- ment in Friends Burial Ground. lican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1909, until his death in Washington, D.C., May 23, 1914; BRADY, James Dennis, a Representative from Virginia; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department born in Portsmouth, North Hampton County, Va., April 3, of Justice (Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses), Com- 1843; merchant; lawyer, private practice; New York Volun- mittee to Investigate Trespassers upon Indian Land (Sixty- teers, until 1865; clerk of the corporation court of Ports- first Congress), Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Sixty- mouth, Va., 1865-1877; collector of internal revenue for the third Congress); interment in State Cemetery, Frankfort, second district of Virginia, 1877-1885, 1889-1900; delegate Ky. to the Republican National Conventions, 1880, 1888, and Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; U.S. Congress. Memo- 1896; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth Congress rial Services for William Bradley. 64th Cong., 1st sess., 1915-1916. Wash- (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1887); was not a candidate for ington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1917; Thatcher, Maurice Hudson, renomination in 1886; member of the Republican National ed. Stories and Speeches of William O. Bradley; with a Biographical Committee, 1888-1892; died on November 30, 1900, in Pe- Sketch by M.H. Thatcher. Lexington, KY: Transylvania Printing Co., 1916. tersburg, Va.; interment in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Peters- burg Va. BRADLEY, William Warren (Bill), a Senator from New Jersey; born in Crystal City, Jefferson County, Mo., July BRADY, James Henry, a Senator from Idaho; born in 28, 1943; attended Crystal City public schools; graduated, Indiana County, Pa., June 12, 1862; moved with his parents Princeton University 1965; attended Oxford University, Ox- to Johnson County, Kans., in 1865; attended the public ford, England, as a Rhodes Scholar and received a graduate schools and Leavenworth Normal College; taught school; degree in 1968; represented the United States in 1964 Olym- edited a newspaper in Enterprise, Kans.; engaged in the pic Games (basketball) at Tokyo, Japan; served in the real estate business at Abilene, Kans.; moved to Chicago, United States Air Force Reserve 1967-1978; author; profes- Ill., in 1890 and engaged in the sale of Texas lands; moved sional basketball player 1967-1977; businessman; elected as to Idaho in 1895 and became interested in the development a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1978; reelected of water power and in irrigation projects; chairman of the in 1984 and 1990 and served from January 3, 1979, to Republican State central committee 1904-1908; president of January 3, 1997; was not a candidate for reelection in 1996; the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress; vice president was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presi- of the National Irrigation Congress 1904-1906; Governor of dential nomination in 2000; senior advisor and vice chair- Idaho 1909-1911; elected as a Republican to the United man of the International Council of J.P. Morgan & Co., States Senate on January 24, 1913, to fill the vacancy Inc. 1997-1999; essayist for CBS evening news; visiting pro- caused by the death of Weldon B. Heyburn; reelected in fessor, Stanford University, Notre Dame University and the 1914, and served from February 6, 1913, until his death University of Maryland 1997-1999; chief outside advisor, in Washington, D.C., January 13, 1918; chairman, Com- McKinsey & Company 2001-2004; managing director, Allen mittee on National Banks (Sixty-second Congress), Com- & Company LLC. mittee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers (Sixty- Bibliography: Bradley, Bill. Time Present, Time Past: A Memoir. New fifth Congress); was cremated and the ashes deposited in York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996; Bradley, Bill. The Journey from Here. New the James H. Brady Memorial Chapel in Mountain View York: Artisan, 2000. Cemetery, Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho. Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses for James Henry BRADLEY, Willis Winter, a Representative from Cali- Brady. 65th Cong., 3rd sess., 1918-1919. Washington, D.C.: Government fornia; born in Ransomville, Niagara County, N.Y., June Printing Office, 1919. 696 Biographical Directory

BRADY, Jasper Ewing, a Representative from Pennsyl- 9, 1865; appointed postmaster of Fond du Lac by President vania; born in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pa., Johnson in 1866; member of the State senate in 1868 and March 4, 1797; attended the common schools; learned the 1869; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in hatter’s trade; taught school in Franklin County, Pa.; stud- 1872, 1880, and 1896; unsuccessful candidate for election ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1827 and commenced to the United States Senate in 1874; elected as a Democrat practice in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pa.; served as to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses treasurer of Franklin County for three years; member of (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on the State house of representatives in 1844 and 1845; elected Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Forty-fifth Con- as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March gress), Committee on War Claims (Forty-sixth Congress); 3, 1849); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1848 to was not a candidate for renomination in 1882; elected to the Thirty-first Congress; moved to Pittsburgh, Pa., in Sep- the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1887); tember 1849 and resumed the practice of law; clerk in the chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Forty-ninth Con- office of the paymaster general in the War Department, gress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1886; re- Washington, D.C., 1861-1869; retired from active business sumed the practice of law in Fond du Lac, Wis.; appointed pursuits in 1869 and resided in Washington, D.C., until Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico his death in that city on January 26, 1871; interment in January 16, 1888, and served from March 5, 1888, to May City Cemetery, Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pa.; re- 27, 1889; appointed consul general at Habana, Cuba, May interment in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C., in 19, 1902, and assumed charge June 30, 1902; appointed 1893. consul general at Hong Kong, China, September 15, 1902, and assumed his duties March 1, 1903; resigned, effective BRADY, Kevin Patrick, a Representative from Texas; May 1, 1906; died in Fond du Lac, Wis., June 20, 1912; born in Vermillion, Clay County, S. Dak., April 11, 1955; interment in the Rienzi Cemetery. graduated from Rapid City Central High School, Rapid City, S. Dak; B.A., University of South Dakota, Vermillion, S. BRAGG, John, a Representative from Alabama; born Dak., 1990; member of the Texas state house of representa- near Warrenton, Warren County, N.C., January 14, 1806; tives, 1990-1996; elected as a Republican to the One Hun- attended the local academy at Warrenton, and was grad- dred Fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January uated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 3, 1997-present). in 1824; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1830 and commenced practice in Warrenton; member of the State BRADY, Nicholas Frederick, a Senator from New Jer- house of commons of North Carolina 1830-1834; moved to sey; born in New York City, April 11, 1930; graduated, St. Mobile, Ala., in 1836 and continued the practice of law; Mark’s School, Southboro, Mass., 1948, Yale University in was appointed judge of the tenth judicial circuit in 1842; 1952, and Harvard Business School in 1954; investment member of the State house of representatives; elected as counselor and banker; appointed on April 12, 1982, as a a Democrat to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851- Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy March 3, 1853); declined to be a candidate for reelection caused by the resignation of Harrison A. Williams, Jr., and in 1852; resumed the practice of his profession; delegate served from April 12, 1982, until his resignation December from Mobile to the State constitutional convention in 1861; 20, 1982; did not seek reelection in 1982; resumed banking died in Mobile, Ala., August 10, 1878; interment in Magnolia and business interests in New York City; chairman of the Cemetery. Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms (Brady Commission), 1987; Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet BRAGG, Thomas, a Senator from North Carolina; born of President George Herbert Walker Bush 1989-1993; is a in Warrenton, Warren County, N.C., November 9, 1810; at- resident of Trappe, Md. tended the Warrenton Academy; graduated from Captain Partridge’s Military Academy, Middletown, Conn.; studied BRADY, Robert A., a Representative from Pennsylvania; law; admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced practice born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., April 7, in Jackson, Northampton County, N.C.; member, State 1945; graduated from St. Thomas More High School, Phila- house of commons 1842-1843; prosecuting attorney for delphia, Pa.; union official; sergeant-at-arms, Philadelphia, Northampton County; Governor of North Carolina 1855- Pa., city council, 1975-1983; chair, Philadelphia Democratic 1859; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate Party; member of the Pennsylvania Democratic state com- and served from March 4, 1859, until March 6, 1861, when mittee and Democratic National Committee; elected as a he withdrew; expelled from the Senate for support of the Democrat to the One Hundred Fifth Congress by special rebellion in 1861; appointed Attorney General of the Confed- election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of erate States November 21, 1861, and served two years; re- United States Representative Thomas Foglietta, reelected sumed the practice of law; died in Raleigh, N.C., January to the three succeeding Congresses (May 19, 1998-present). 21, 1872; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. BRAGG, Edward Stuyvesant, a Representative from Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- Wisconsin; born in Unadilla, Otsego County, N.Y., February ography; Cowper, Pulaski. ‘‘.’’ In Lives of Distinguished North Carolinians. pp. 306-32. Edited by William Peele. Raleigh: North 20, 1827; attended the district schools, the local academy, Carolina Publishing Society, 1898. and Geneva (later Hobart) College at Geneva, N.Y.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced prac- BRAINERD, Lawrence, a Senator from Vermont; born tice in Unadilla; moved to Fond du Lac, Wis., in 1850 and in East Hartford, Conn., March 16, 1794; went to Troy, continued the practice of law; elected district attorney in N.Y., in 1803 to reside with an uncle and in 1808 moved 1853; delegate to the Democratic National Convention at with him to St. Albans, Vt.; completed preparatory studies; Charleston in 1860; entered the Union Army as a captain taught school; employed as a clerk in a mercantile establish- in the Sixth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, July ment until 1816; engaged in mercantile, banking, naviga- 16, 1861; major September 17, 1861; lieutenant colonel June tion, and railroad enterprises; elected to the state legislature 21, 1862; colonel March 24, 1863; brigadier general of Volun- in 1834; affiliated with the Whig Party until 1840, when teers June 25, 1864; mustered out of the service October he became a member of the Liberty Party; unsuccessful can- Biographies 697

didate for Governor in 1846, 1847, 1848, 1852, and 1854; BRANCH, Lawrence O’Bryan (father of William Augus- elected as a member of the to the United tus Blount Branch and nephew of ), a Rep- States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of resentative from North Carolina; born in Enfield, Halifax William Upham and served from October 14, 1854, to March County, N.C., November 28, 1820; pursued a preparatory 3, 1855; was not a candidate for reelection; nominated for course under a private teacher in Washington, D.C., and Governor but declined; resumed business activities; died in at the Bingham Military Academy in North Carolina; at- St. Albans, Franklin County, Vt., May 9, 1870; interment tended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for in Greenwood Cemetery. a short time and was graduated from Princeton College in Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography. 1838; studied law at Nashville, Tenn., and owned and edited BRAINERD, Samuel Myron, a Representative from a newspaper there; moved to Tallahassee, Fla., in 1840; Pennsylvania; born in Albion, Erie County, Pa., November was admitted to the bar in Florida in 1840 by a special 13, 1842; attended the public schools, Edinboro Normal act of the legislature and commenced practice in Tallahas- School, and Ann Arbor (Mich.) Law School; was admitted see; fought in the Seminole War in 1841; moved to Raleigh, to the bar in 1869 and commenced practice in North East, N.C., in 1852 and continued the practice of law; president Erie County, Pa.; district attorney of Erie County 1872- of the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad Co.; elected as a Democrat 1875; moved to Erie, Pa., in 1874 and continued the practice to the Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Con- of law; chairman of the Republican county committee in gresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1861); was not a candidate 1880; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress for renomination in 1860; appointed Secretary of the Treas- (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); unsuccessful candidate for ury by President Buchanan December 2, 1860, but declined; renomination in 1884; resumed the practice of law in Erie, entered the Confederate Army in May 1861 and was ap- Pa., and died there November 21, 1898; interment in the pointed brigadier general the same year; senior brigadier City Cemetery. general in A.P. Hill’s division, Stonewall Jackson’s corps; killed in the Battle of Antietam, Sharpsburg, Md., while BRAMBLETT, Ernest King, a Representative from Cali- in command of the Fourth Brigade, North Carolina Troops, fornia; born in Fresno, Calif., April 25, 1901; attended the September 17, 1862; interment in Old City Cemetery, Ra- public schools; was graduated from Stanford University in leigh, N.C. 1925; took graduate work at Stanford, Fresno State, San Jose State, and the University of Southern California; en- BRANCH, William Augustus Blount (son of Lawrence gaged in the insurance and automobile business 1925-1928, O’Bryan Branch and great-nephew of John Branch), a Rep- and in educational work 1928-1946; mayor of Pacific Grove resentative from North Carolina; born in Tallahassee, Fla., 1939-1947; coordinator of Monterey County schools 1943- February 26, 1847; moved with his father to Raleigh, N.C., 1946; member of the Republican Central Committee 1944- in 1852; attended Lovejoy’s Academy, Raleigh, N.C., Bing- 1946; elected as a Republican to the Eightieth and to the ham Military Academy near Mebane, N.C., the University three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Virginia Military In- 1955); was not a candidate for renomination in 1954; en- stitute at Lexington; joined the Confederate Army and gaged as a consultant in southern California, 1955-1966; served as a courier on the staff of Gen. R. F. Hoke; surren- was a resident of Woodland Hills, Calif., until his death dered with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s army in 1865; studied December 27, 1966. law but never practiced; in 1867 took charge of his landed estate near Washington, Beaufort County, N.C., and en- BRANCH, John (uncle of Lawrence O’Bryan Branch and gaged in agricultural pursuits; elected as a Democrat to great-uncle of William Augustus Blount Branch), a Senator the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891- and a Representative from North Carolina; born in Halifax, March 3, 1895); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 Halifax County, N.C., November 4, 1782; appointed commis- to the Fifty-fourth Congress; again engaged in agricultural sioner for valuation of lands and dwellings and enumeration pursuits on his estate; member of the State house of rep- of slaves, third district of North Carolina 1799; graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in resentatives in 1896; died in Washington, N.C., November 1801; studied law; admitted to the bar; member, State sen- 18, 1910; interment in Oakdale Cemetery. ate 1811-1817, 1822, serving as speaker 1815-1817; Gov- BRAND, Charles, a Representative from Ohio; born in ernor of North Carolina 1817-1820; appointed Federal judge Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio, November 1, 1871; at- for the western district of Florida by President James Mon- tended the graded schools of his native city and Ohio Wes- roe 1822; elected to the United States Senate in 1822; re- leyan University, Delaware, Ohio; engaged in agricultural elected in 1829, and served from March 4, 1823, to March pursuits, manufacturing, and banking at Urbana; member 9, 1829, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Agri- and president of the Urbana City Council 1911-1912; mem- culture (Twentieth Congress); appointed Secretary of the ber of the State senate in 1921 and 1922; served as a mem- Navy by President Andrew Jackson and served from March 9, 1829, until his resignation, effective May 12, 1831, having ber of the advisory committee of the War Finance Corpora- been elected to Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Twen- tion in 1921; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth ty-second Congress and served from May 12, 1831, to March and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1833; was not a candidate for renomination in 1832; mem- 3, 1933); was not a candidate for renomination in 1932; ber of the State constitutional convention in 1835; appointed resumed former business pursuits until his retirement; died Governor of Florida by President John Tyler and served in Melbourne Beach, Fla., May 23, 1966; interment in Mel- from June 21, 1844, until the election of a Governor under bourne Cemetery. the State constitution in 1845; died in Enfield, Halifax Coun- BRAND, Charles Hillyer, a Representative from Geor- ty, N.C., January 3, 1863; interment in the family burial gia; born in Loganville, Walton County, Ga., April 20, 1861; ground. attended the common schools; graduated from the University Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- ography; Haywood, Marshall Delancey. John Branch: 1782-1863. Raleigh, of Georgia, Athens, Ga., 1881; admitted to the bar in 1882; NC: Commercial Printing Co., 1915; Hoffmann, William S. ‘‘John Branch lawyer, private practice; member of the Georgia state senate, and the Origins of the Whig Party in North Carolina.’’ North Carolina 1894-1895, and president pro tempore; president and direc- Historical Review 35 (July 1958): 299-315. tor of the Brand Banking Co., Lawrenceville, Ga.; director, 698 Biographical Directory

Georgia National Bank and of the American State Bank, 1884 and 1885; served in the State senate in 1886 and Athens, Ga.; solicitor general for the western judicial circuit 1887; solicitor general (prosecuting attorney) of the Bruns- of Georgia, 1896-1904; judge of the superior court, 1906- wick Circuit Court of Georgia 1888-1896; moved to Bruns- 1917; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress to wick in 1889 and continued the practice of law; elected as fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Rep- a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the seven succeeding resentative-elect Samuel J. Tribble; reelected to the Sixty- Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1913); was not a can- sixth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 11, didate for renomination in 1912; delegate to the Democratic 1917-May 17, 1933); died on May 17, 1933, until his death National Convention in 1912; moved from Brunswick, Ga., in Athens, Ga.; interment in Shadow Lawn Cemetery, to Washington, D.C., in 1913 and resumed the practice of Lawrenceville, Ga. law; died in Washington, D.C., September 11, 1934; inter- ment in Blackshear Cemetery, Blackshear, Ga. BRANDEGEE, Augustus (father of Frank Bosworth Brandegee), a Representative from Connecticut; born in New BRASCO, Frank James, a Representative from New London, Conn., July 15, 1828; pursued preparatory studies; York; born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., October 15, was graduated from Yale College in 1849 and from the Yale 1932; graduated from St. Michael’s High School; B.A., Brook- Law School in 1851; was admitted to the bar in 1851 and lyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1955; L.L.B., Brooklyn Law commenced practice in New London; member of the State School, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1957; United States Army Reserve; house of representatives 1854, 1858, 1859, and 1861, and attorney; assistant district attorney, Kings County; elected served as speaker the last term; elected as a Republican as a Democrat to the Ninetieth and to the three succeeding to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March Congresses (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1975); was not a 4, 1863-March 3, 1867); was not a candidate for reelection candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth Congress in in 1866; delegate to the Republican National Convention 1974; died on October 19, 1998. in 1864, the Loyalist Convention at Philadelphia in 1866, and the Republican National Conventions in 1880 and 1884; BRATTON, John, a Representative from South Carolina; resumed the practice of law; corporation counsel of New born in Winnsboro, Fairfield County, S.C., March 7, 1831; London in 1897 and 1898; died in New London, Conn., No- attended the Academy of Mount Zion Institute in Winnsboro; vember 10, 1904; interment in Cedar Grove Cemetery. was graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1850 and from South Carolina Medical College at BRANDEGEE, Frank Bosworth (son of Augustus Charleston in 1853; engaged in the practice of medicine Brandegee), a Representative and a Senator from Con- in Winnsboro from 1853 to 1861; also engaged as a planter; necticut; born in New London, Conn., July 8, 1864; attended volunteered in the Confederate Army as a private and the common schools, and graduated from Yale College in served throughout the Civil War, attaining the rank of brig- 1885; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1888 and practiced adier general; member of the State constitutional convention in New London; member, State house of representatives in 1865; served in the State senate in 1866; chairman of 1888; corporation counsel of New London 1889-1893, 1894- the South Carolina delegation in the Democratic National 1897, when he resigned; member, State house of representa- Convention in 1876; delegate to the Democratic National tives 1899, and served as speaker; again elected corporation Convention in 1880; elected comptroller general of South counsel of New London 1901-1902, when he resigned to be- Carolina by the legislature, to fill a vacancy, in 1881; elected come a Member of Congress; chairman of the Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by State convention in 1904; elected as a Republican to the the death of John H. Evins and served from December 8, Fifty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the 1884, to March 3, 1885; was not a candidate for renomina- death of Charles A. Russell; reelected to the Fifty-eighth tion in 1884; retired from active politics and again engaged and Fifty-ninth Congresses and served from November 4, in planting at ‘‘Farmington,’’ near Winnsboro; died in 1902, until May 10, 1905, when he resigned, having been Winnsboro, S.C., January 12, 1898; interment in the Epis- elected a United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused copal Cemetery. by the death of Orville H. Platt; reelected in 1908, 1914, and 1920, and served from May 10, 1905, until his death BRATTON, Robert Franklin, a Representative from by suicide in Washington, D.C., October 14, 1924; served Maryland; born in Barren Creek Springs, Somerset (now as President pro tempore during the Sixty-second Congress; Wicomico) County, Md., May 13, 1845; was graduated from chairman, Committee on Forest Reservations and Game Pro- Washington College, Chestertown, Md., in 1864; deputy reg- tection (Fifty-ninth through Sixty-first Congresses), Com- ister of wills for Somerset County; admitted to the bar in mittee on Interoceanic Canals (Sixty-second Congress), Com- 1867; member of the State convention of 1865 which sent mittee on Panama (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on delegates to a peace convention held in Philadelphia in the Pacific Railroads (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Con- following year; member of several State and congressional gresses), Committee on Library (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-sev- conventions; member of the State house of representatives enth Congresses), Committee on Judiciary (Sixty-eighth Con- in 1869; served in the State senate in 1873, 1879, 1887, gress); interment in Cedar Grove Cemetery, New London, and 1890; elected president of the senate in 1890; engaged Conn. in the practice of law in Princess Anne, Somerset County, Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Janick, Herbert. ‘‘Sen- Md.; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress and ator Frank B. Brandegee and the Election of 1920.’’ Historian 35 (May served from March 4, 1893, until his death in Princess Anne, 1973): 434-51; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 68th Cong., 1st sess., Md., May 10, 1894; interment in St. Andrew’s Cemetery. 1924-1925. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1925. BRATTON, Sam Gilbert, a Senator from New Mexico; BRANTLEY, William Gordon, a Representative from born in Kosse, Limestone County, Tex., August 19, 1888; Georgia; born in Blackshear, Pierce County, Ga., September attended the public schools; graduated from State Normal 18, 1860; attended the public schools, and the University School and taught school for several years at Claude and of Georgia at Athens; studied law; was admitted to the bar Hereford, Tex.; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1909 in 1881 and commenced practice in Blackshear, Pierce Coun- and commenced practice in Farwell, Parmer County, Tex.; ty, Ga.; member of the State house of representatives in moved to Clovis, N.Mex., in 1915 and continued the practice Biographies 699

of law; judge of the district court for the fifth judicial district elected its captain; subsequently commissioned a major and of New Mexico 1919-1921, when, this district being divided, served on the staff of Gen. John R. Cooke; elected a member he became judge of the ninth judicial district 1921-1923; of the common council of Fredericksburg in 1866; elected associate justice of the supreme court of New Mexico 1923- as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871- 1924, when he resigned to accept the nomination for Sen- March 3, 1873); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1872 ator; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to the Forty-third Congress; resumed the practice of law in 1924; reelected in 1930 and served from March 4, 1925, in Fredericksburg, Va., where he died on October 2, 1891; until his resignation, effective June 24, 1933; chairman, interment in Confederate Cemetery. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation (Seventy-third Congress); resigned to accept an appointment as circuit BRAY, William Gilmer, a Representative from Indiana; judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the born on a farm near Mooresville, Morgan County, Ind., June Tenth Judicial Circuit 1933-1961; died in Albuquerque, 17, 1903; attended the public schools of Mooresville, Ind.; N.Mex., September 22, 1963; interment in Fairview Park was graduated from Indiana University Law School at Cemetery. Bloomington in 1927 and was admitted to the bar the same year; prosecuting attorney of the fifteenth judicial district BRAWLEY, William Huggins (cousin of John James of Indiana, Martinsville, Ind., 1926-1930; commenced the Hemphill and great-uncle of Robert Witherspoon Hemphill), private practice of law in Martinsville, Ind., in 1930; called a Representative from South Carolina; born in Chester, from the Army Reserve June 21, 1941, with the rank of Chester County, S.C., May 13, 1841; attended the common captain and served with a tank company throughout the schools, and was graduated from South Carolina College Pacific campaign, receiving the Silver Star; after the war at Columbia in 1860; enlisted as a private in Company F, was transferred to Military Government and served nine Sixth Regiment, South Carolina Infantry, Confederate months in Korea as deputy property custodian; released States Army, April 11, 1861; lost an arm in the Battle from active duty in November 1946 with the rank of colonel; of Seven Pines and was retired from service; traveled and returned to private law practice in Martinsville, Ind.; elected studied in Europe in 1864 and 1865; studied law; was admit- as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the eleven ted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice at Chester, succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1975); S.C.; elected solicitor of the sixth judicial circuit of South unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety- Carolina in 1868 and served until his resignation in 1874; fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law; named to be moved to Charleston and continued the practice of his pro- a commissioner to the American Battle Monuments Commis- fession; member of the State house of representatives 1882- sion by President , 1975-1978; resided in 1890; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and Fifty- Martinsville, Ind., where he died June 4, 1979; interment third Congresses and served from March 4, 1891, until Feb- in White Lick Cemetery, Mooresville, Ind. ruary 12, 1894, when he resigned to accept a position on the bench; appointed January 18, 1894, United States dis- BRAYTON, William Daniel, a Representative from trict judge of the district of South Carolina and served from Rhode Island; born in Warwick, Kent County, R.I., Novem- February 12, 1894, until his resignation June 14, 1911; lived ber 6, 1815; attended Kent Academy in East Greenwich in retirement until his death in Charleston, S.C., November and Kingston Academy; spent two years in Brown Univer- 15, 1916; interment in Magnolia Cemetery. sity, Providence, R.I.; engaged in mercantile pursuits; major Bibliography: Brawley, William H[iram]. Journal of William H. Braw- of the Fourth Regiment of Rhode Island Militia in the Dorr ley, 1864-1865. Edited with an introduction by Frances Poe Brawley. Char- Rebellion; town clerk of Warwick in 1844; member of the lottesville, Va.: The author, 1970. town council; member of the State house of representatives in 1841 and 1851; served in the State senate in 1848 and BRAXTON, Carter (great-grandfather of Elliott Muse 1853; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty- Braxton), a Delegate from Virginia; born at ‘‘Newington,’’ sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); chairman, on the Mattaponi River, near King and Queen Court House, Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Thirty- Va., September 16, 1736; was graduated from the College sixth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in 1755; spent 1860 to the Thirty-seventh Congress; appointed collector of three years in England and attended Cambridge University; internal revenue for the second district of Rhode Island in member of the Virginia House of Burgesses 1761-1771 and 1862 and served until 1871, when he resigned; delegate 1775-1776; elected a Member of the Continental Congress to the Republican National Convention in 1872; for a num- to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Peyton Randolph ber of years in charge of the money-order division of the and served from February to August 1776, when Virginia Providence post office; died in Providence, R.I., June 30, reduced her representation from seven to five; a signer of 1887; interment in Brayton Cemetery, Apponaug, R.I. the Declaration of Independence; member, Virginia house of delegates, 1776-1783, 1785-1786, and 1790-1794; member BREAUX, John Berlinger, a Representative and a Sen- of the Virginia Council of State 1786-1791 and from 1794 ator from Louisiana; born in Crowley, La., March 1, 1944; until his death in Richmond, Va., October 10, 1797; inter- graduated, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, ment on his estate, ‘‘Chericoke,’’ King William County, Va. 1964; graduated, Louisiana State University Law School, Bibliography: Dill, Alonzo T. Carter Braxton, Virginia Signer: A Con- Baton Rouge, 1967; practiced law; assistant to Representa- servative in Revolt. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1983. tive Edwin W. Edwards 1968-1972; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second Congress in a special election, Sep- BRAXTON, Elliott Muse (great-grandson of Carter tember 30, 1972, to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- Braxton), a Representative from Virginia; born in Matthews, tion of ; reelected to the seven succeeding Matthews County, Va., October 8, 1823; attended the com- Congresses and served from September 30, 1972 to January mon schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 3, 1987; was not a candidate for reelection to the House and commenced practice in Richmond, Va.; subsequently of Representatives in 1986, but was elected as a Democrat moved to Richmond County; member of the State senate to the United States Senate in 1986; reelected in 1992 and 1852-1856; moved to Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, 1998 for the term ending January 3, 2005; was not a can- in 1860 and continued the practice of law; during the Civil didate for reelection in 2004; chair, Democratic Senatorial War raised a company for the Confederate Army and was Campaign Committee (1989-1991). 700 Biographical Directory

BREAZEALE, Phanor, a Representative from Louisiana; first Congress and served from March 4, 1889, until Sep- born in Natchitoches Parish, La., December 29, 1858; at- tember 5, 1890, when John M. Clayton was declared to tended private schools; moved to Natchitoches, La., in 1877; have been duly elected, but, owing to the death of Mr. Clay- clerked in a mercantile establishment for two years; studied ton while the contest was pending, the seat was declared law; clerk in the supreme court of the State; was graduated vacant; subsequently elected to the Fifty-first Congress to from the law department of Tulane University, New Orle- fill the vacancy thus caused; reelected to the Fifty-second ans, in 1881; was admitted to the bar the same year and and Fifty-third Congresses and served from November 4, commenced practice in Natchitoches; also engaged in news- 1890, to August 14, 1894, when he resigned to accept a paper work 1882-1884; president of the school board of consular position; unsuccessful candidate for renomination Natchitoches Parish 1888-1891; district attorney for the for Congress in 1894; appointed Minister to Russia by Presi- tenth judicial district 1892-1900; member of the State con- dent Cleveland July 20, 1894, and served until December stitutional convention in 1898; elected as a Democrat to 13, 1897, when he returned to Pine Bluff, Ark.; member the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses of the Dawes Commission, 1900-1905; engaged in banking (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1905); unsuccessful candidate for at Fort Smith, Ark., serving as president of the Arkansas renomination in 1904; resumed the practice of law in Valley Trust Co.; member of the State constitutional conven- Natchitoches, La.; appointed in October 1908 member of tion in 1917; was a resident of Fort Smith, Ark., until 1925, a commission to codify the criminal laws of Louisiana and when he moved to Wendover, Leslie County, Ky., where to prepare a code of criminal procedure; member of the he died on December 3, 1932; interment in Old Lexington Democratic State central committee since 1908 and a mem- Cemetery, Lexington, Ky. ber of the executive committee; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1908 and 1916; member of the con- BRECKINRIDGE, James (brother of John Breckinridge, stitutional convention to frame a constitution for the State great-great-great-uncle of John Bayne Breckinridge, and of Louisiana in 1921; died in Natchitoches, La., April 29, cousin of John Brown of Virginia and Kentucky, James 1934; interment in the Catholic Cemetery. Brown, and Francis Preston), a Representative from Vir- ginia; born near Fincastle, Botetourt County, Va., March BRECK, Daniel (brother of Samuel Breck), a Representa- 7, 1763; studied under private tutors; during the Revolu- tive from Kentucky; born in Topsfield, Essex County, Mass., tionary War served in Colonel Preston’s rifle regiment under February 12, 1788; attended the local school; taught school; General Greene; attended Washington College (now Wash- was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in ington and Lee University), Lexington, Va., and was grad- 1812; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1814 and uated from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, commenced practice in Richmond, Madison County, Ky., in Va., in 1785; studied law; was admitted to the bar and October of the same year; judge of the Richmond County practiced in Fincastle; member of the State house of dele- Court; member of the State house of representatives 1824- gates 1789-1802, 1806-1808, 1819-1821 and 1823-1824; took 1827 and again in 1834; president of the Richmond branch a special interest in the construction of the Chesapeake & of the State Bank of Kentucky 1835-1843; appointed asso- Ohio Canal; elected as a Federalist to the Eleventh and ciate judge of the supreme court of Kentucky April 7, 1843, to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1809-March and served until 1849; elected as a Whig to the Thirty- 3, 1817); was an associate of Thomas Jefferson in the estab- first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); returned to lishment of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.; Richmond, Ky., and again served as president to the Rich- served as brigadier general in the War of 1812; resumed mond branch of the State bank; died in Richmond, Ky., the practice of law; died at his country home, ‘‘Grove Hill,’’ February 4, 1871; interment in Richmond Cemetery. Botetourt County, Va., May 13, 1833; interment in the fam- ily burial plot on his estate near Fincastle, Va. BRECK, Samuel (brother of Daniel Breck), a Representa- tive from Pennsylvania; born in Boston, Mass., July 17, BRECKINRIDGE, James Douglas, a Representative 1771; attended the Royal Military School of Loreze, France; from Kentucky; born in Woodville, near Louisville, Jefferson moved to Pennsylvania and settled in Philadelphia in 1792, County, Ky., birth date unknown; attended Washington Col- where he engaged in business as a merchant; served as lege (now Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Va., corporal during the Whisky Rebellion; member of the State 1800-1803; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- house of representatives 1817-1820; served in the State sen- menced practice in Louisville, Ky.; member of the Kentucky ate 1832-1834; elected to the Eighteenth Congress (March state house of representatives, 1809-1811; appointed judge 4, 1823-March 3, 1825); withdrew from active business pur- by Gov. Robert Desha in April 1826, but declined to serve; suits and lived in retirement until his death in Philadelphia, elected to the Seventeenth Congress to fill the vacancy Pa., August 31, 1862; interment in St. Peter’s Churchyard. caused by the death of United States Representative Bibliography: Wainwright, Nicholas B. ‘‘The Diary of Samuel Breck, Wingfield Bullock (November 21, 1821-March 3, 1823); un- 1814-1835, 1838.’’ Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 102 successful candidate for reelection in 1822 to the Eighteenth (October 1978): 469-508; 103 (1979): 85-113, 222-51, 356-82. Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Louisville, Ky., May 6, 1849; interment in St. John’s Cemetery; reinter- BRECKINRIDGE, Clifton Rodes (son of John Cabell ment in St. Louis Catholic Cemetery, Louisville in 1867. Breckinridge and great-grandson of John Breckinridge), a Representative from Arkansas; born near Lexington, Ky., BRECKINRIDGE, John (brother of James Breckinridge, November 22, 1846; attended the rural schools; served in grandfather of John Cabell Breckinridge and William Camp- the Confederate Army and was a midshipman in the Navy; bell Preston Breckinridge, great-grandfather of Clifton Rodes after the Civil War he attended Washington College (now Breckinridge, great-great-grandfather of John Bayne Breck- Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Va., for three inridge, cousin of John Brown, James Brown, and Francis years; settled near Pine Bluff, Ark., in 1870 and engaged Preston), a Senator from Kentucky; born near Staunton, in cotton planting and in the commission business for 13 Augusta County, Va., December 2, 1760; educated at Au- years; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth, Forty- gusta Academy, near Staunton (now Washington and Lee ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, University, Lexington, Va.), and at William and Mary Col- 1889); presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Fifty- lege, Williamsburg, Va.; elected a member of the house of Biographies 701

burgesses in 1780 when nineteen years of age, but being clined; elected Vice President of the United States in 1856 under age was not allowed to take his seat until elected on the Democratic ticket with James Buchanan as President; the third time; served as subaltern in the Virginia Militia unsuccessful candidate for President in 1860; elected to the during the Revolutionary War; studied law; admitted to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1861, until bar in 1785 and commenced practice in Charlottesville, Va.; expelled by resolution of December 4, 1861, for support of elected as a Democrat to the Third Congress, but resigned the rebellion; entered the Confederate Army during the Civil in 1792 before the commencement of the congressional term; War as brigadier general and soon became a major general; moved to Kentucky in 1793 and resumed the practice of Secretary of War in the Cabinet of the Confederate States law in Lexington; unsuccessful candidate for election to the from January until April 1865; resided in Europe until 1868; United States Senate in 1794; appointed attorney general returned to Lexington, Ky., and resumed the practice of of Kentucky in 1795 and served until November 30, 1797, law; vice president of the Elizabethtown, Lexington Big when he resigned; member, State house of representatives Sandy Railroad Co.; died in Lexington, Ky., May 17, 1875; 1798-1800, serving as speaker in 1799 and 1800; member interment in Lexington Cemetery. of the State constitutional convention in 1799; elected as Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate and ography; Davis, William. John C. Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Sym- served from March 4, 1801, until August 7, 1805, when bol. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974; Heck, Frank. Proud Kentuckian, John C. Breckinridge, 1821-1875. Lexington: University he resigned to accept the position of Attorney General of Press of Kentucky, 1976. the United States in the Cabinet of President Thomas Jeffer- son; served in this capacity until his death at ‘Cabell’s Dale,’ BRECKINRIDGE, William Campbell Preston (grand- near Lexington, Ky., December 14, 1806; interment in Lex- son of John Breckinridge, uncle of Levin Irving Handy, and ington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky. great-uncle of John Bayne Breckinridge), a Representative Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Harrison, Lowell. from Kentucky; born in Baltimore, Md., August 28, 1837; John Breckinridge, Jeffersonian Democratic Republican. Louisville: Filson attended the common schools, Jefferson College, Chambers- Club, 1969; Klotter, James C. The Breckinridges of Kentucky: Two Cen- burg, Pa., and Pisgah Academy, Woodford County, Ky.; was turies of Leadership. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1855 and BRECKINRIDGE, John Bayne (great-great-grandson of from the law department of the University of Louisville in John Breckinridge, great-great-great-nephew of James 1857; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced prac- Breckinridge, and great-nephew of William Campbell Pres- tice in Lexington, Ky.; entered the Confederate Army in ton Breckinridge), a Representative from Kentucky; born in 1861 as captain and was subsequently promoted to the rank Washington, D.C., November 29, 1913; attended various Lex- of colonel in the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry; was in command ington schools, Massie Preparatory, Versailles, Ky., Tome of the Kentucky cavalry designated to act as bodyguard for Preparatory, Port Deposit, Md.; A.B., University of Ken- President Jefferson Davis and the members of his cabinet tucky, 1937; LL.B., same university, 1939; admitted to the at the close of the Civil War; returned to Lexington, Ky., Kentucky Bar in 1940 and commenced practice in Lexington; and was attorney for Fayette County; edited the Lexington special attorney, Anti-Trust Division, United States Depart- (Ky.) Observer and Reporter 1866-1868; professor of equity ment of Justice, 1940-1941; served in United States Army, and jurisprudence in the University of Kentucky at Lex- 1941-1946, and attained rank of lieutenant colonel; private ington; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in law practice, 1946-1972; member, Kentucky house of rep- 1876 and 1888; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth resentatives, 1956-1960; attorney general of Kentucky, 1960- and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 1964 and 1968-1972; corporation counsel, city of Lexington, 3, 1895); unsuccessful candidate for election in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law and also 1964; commissioner, National Conference of Commissioners edited the Lexington Herald; died in Lexington, Ky., Novem- on Uniform State Law, 1960-1964; delegate to Democratic ber 18, 1904; interment in Lexington Cemetery. National Convention, 1960; elected as a Democrat to the Bibliography: Davis, William C. Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Sym- Ninety-third and to the two succeeding Congresses (January bol. 1974. Reprint, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. 3, 1973-January 3, 1979); unsuccessful candidate for renomi- nation in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; resumed the BREEDING, James Floyd, a Representative from Kan- practice of law in Lexington, Ky., where he died July 29, sas; born near Robinson, Brown County, Kans., September 1979; cremated; ashes interred at Lexington Cemetery. 28, 1901; educated in grade schools, Moonlight, Dickinson Bibliography: Klotter, James C. The Breckinridges of Kentucky, 1760- County, Kans., and Berryton High School in Shawnee Coun- 1981. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1986. ty, Kans.; attended Kansas State College at Manhattan in 1921 and 1922; moved to Rolla, Kans., in 1928; farmer- BRECKINRIDGE, John Cabell (grandson of John stockman near Rolla, Morton County, 1928-1956; member Breckinridge, father of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, and cous- of State house of representatives 1947-1949, serving as mi- in of Henry Donnel Foster), a Representative and a Senator nority leader in 1949 session; Democratic nominee for Lieu- from Kentucky and a Vice President of the United States; tenant Governor of Kansas in 1950; president of Western born at ‘Cabell’s Dale,’ near Lexington, Ky., January 16, Kansas Development Association in 1951; delegate to the 1821; attended Pisgah Academy, Woodford County, Ky.; Democratic National Conventions in 1960 and 1964; elected graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1839; later as a Democrat to the Eighty-fifth and to the two succeeding attended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton Univer- Congresses (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1963); unsuccessful sity); studied law in the Transylvania Institute, Lexington, candidate for reelection in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Con- Ky.; admitted to the bar in 1840; moved to Burlington, Iowa, gress; appointed by President Kennedy as assistant to Sec- but soon returned and began practice in Lexington, Ky.; retary of Agriculture, Grain and Feed Division, 1963-1966; major of the Third Kentucky Volunteers during the Mexican unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Sen- War in 1847 and 1848; member, State house of representa- ate in 1966; died in Dodge City, Kans., October 17, 1977; tives 1849; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second and interment in Rolla Cemetery, Rolla, Kans. Thirty-third Congresses (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1855); was not a candidate for renomination in 1854; was tendered BREEN, Edward Grimes, a Representative from Ohio; the mission to Spain by President Franklin Pierce, but de- born in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, June 10, 1908; 702 Biographical Directory

attended Corpus Christi Grammar School; graduated from mazoo County, Mich.; moved to Detroit in 1851 and became the University of Dayton and attended the Ohio State Uni- a clerk in a mercantile house; moved to Marquette, Mich., versity; engaged in the hotel business in Dayton; during and engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1859, when he the Second World War served as a major in the United went to Negaunee, Marquette County; sold out his mer- States Air Force in North Africa and Italy until released cantile business to engage exclusively in iron-mining oper- from active service as a lieutenant colonel in the Infantry ations in 1864; explored the iron range in Marquette and Reserve; mayor of Dayton, Ohio, from November 1945 until Menominee Counties, locating several profitable mines, his resignation in April 1948 to seek nomination to Con- 1864-1867; later became interested in gold and silver mining gress; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty- in Colorado; member of the State house of representatives second Congresses and served from January 3, 1949, until in 1873 and 1874; member of the State senate in 1877 his resignation October 1, 1951, due to ill health; member and 1878; served as mayor of Negaunee, Mich., in 1879, of Montgomery County Board of Commissioners 1955-1960; 1880, and 1882; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth engaged in the real-estate and insurance business; was a Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); declined to be resident of Dayton, Ohio, until his death there on May 8, a candidate for renomination in 1884; died in Negaunee, 1991. Marquette County, Mich., March 3, 1887; interment in Park Cemetery, Marquette, Mich. BREESE, Sidney, a Senator from Illinois; born in Whitesboro, N.Y., July 15, 1800; attended Hamilton College, BREMNER, Robert Gunn, a Representative from New Clinton, N.Y., and graduated from Union College, Schenec- Jersey; born in Keiss, Caithness, Scotland, December 17, tady, N.Y., in 1818; moved to Illinois; studied law; admitted 1874; immigrated with his parents to Canada; attended pub- to the bar in 1820 and commenced practice in Kaskaskia; lic schools; moved to the United States; carpenter; elec- appointed postmaster of Kaskaskia in 1821; prosecuting at- trician; newspaper reporter; Second Regiment, New Jersey torney of the third judicial circuit 1822-1826; United States Volunteer Infantry, during the Spanish-American War; district attorney for Illinois 1827-1829; was the first reporter newspaper publisher; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- of the proceedings of the State supreme court in 1831; held third Congress (March 4, 1913-February 5, 1914); died on several commissions in the militia and served as a lieuten- February 5, 1914, in Baltimore, Md.; interment in Laurel ant colonel of Volunteers in the Black Hawk War in 1832; Grove Cemetery, Totowa Borough, N.J. circuit judge of the second district 1835-1841; judge of the State supreme court in 1841-1842; elected as a Democrat BRENGLE, Francis, a Representative from Maryland; to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1843, born in Frederick, Md., November 26, 1807; completed aca- to March 3, 1849; unsuccessful candidate for renomination demic studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar and in 1849; chairman, Committee on District of Columbia practiced in Frederick, Md.; member of the State house of (Twenty-ninth Congress), Committee on Public Lands delegates 1832, 1834, and 1836; elected as a Whig to the (Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses); member, State Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); died house of representatives 1851-1852, serving as speaker in in Frederick, Frederick County, Md., December 10, 1846; 1851; judge of the circuit court of Illinois 1855-1857; judge interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery. of the supreme court of Illinois from 1857 until his death; BRENNAN, Joseph Edward, a Representative from served as chief justice 1867-1870, 1873, and 1874; died in Maine; born in Portland, Maine, November 2, 1934; attended Pinkneyville, Perry County, Ill., June 27, 1878; interment public schools; B.S., Boston College, 1958; LL.B., University in Carlyle Cemetery, Carlyle, Ill. Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; McNulty, John W. of Maine Law School, 1963; member, Maine house of rep- ‘: His Early Career in Law and Politics in Illinois.’ Journal resentatives, 1965-1971, Maine senate, 1973-1975; state at- of the Illinois State Historical Society 61 (Summer 1968): 164-81; Breese, torney general, 1975-1977; elected Governor of Maine in Sidney. The Early History of Illinois. Edited by Thomas Hoyne. Chicago: 1978 and served from January 3, 1979, to January 3, 1987; E.B. Myers Co., 1884. elected as a Democrat to the One Hundredth and One Hun- dred First Congresses (January 3, 1987-January 3, 1991); BREHM, Walter Ellsworth, a Representative from Ohio; was not a candidate for reelection in 1990 to the One Hun- born in Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, May 25, 1892; at- dred Second Congress but was an unsuccessful nominee for tended the public schools, Boston (Mass.) University, and Governor of Maine; unsuccessful candidate in 1996 for elec- Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio; was graduated tion to the United States Senate. from the Ohio State University Dental School at Columbus in 1917; worked in steel mills, rubber factories, and oil fields BRENNAN, Martin Adlai, a Representative from Illi- after graduation from high school; member of Company D, nois; born in Bloomington, McLean County, Ill., September Seventh Regiment, Ohio Infantry, 1908-1913; engaged in the 21, 1879; attended parochial schools; employed as a reporter practice of dentistry in Logan, Ohio, 1921-1942; treasurer for the Bloomington Bulletin; was graduated from the Wes- of the Republican executive committee of Hocking County, leyan College of Law, Bloomington, Ill., in 1902; was admit- Logan City Council, 1936-1938; served in the State house ted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in of representatives 1938-1942; elected as a Republican to the Bloomington, Ill.; served as presiding judge of the Illinois Seventy-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (Janu- Court of Claims 1913-1917; served as census supervisor for ary 3, 1943-January 3, 1953); was not a candidate for reelec- McLean County, Ill., in 1920; member of the State house tion in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress; resumed the prac- of representatives 1921-1923; delegate to the Democratic Na- tice of dentistry and affiliated with a dental supply company tional Convention in 1924; elected as a Democrat to the after retirement from active practice; resided in Columbus, Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, Ohio, until his death there August 24, 1971. 1933-January 3, 1937); was not a candidate for renomination in 1936; resumed the practice of law in Bloomington, Ill., BREITUNG, Edward, a Representative from Michigan; until his death there on July 4, 1941; interment in St. born in the city of Schalkau, Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, Ger- Mary’s Cemetery. many, November 10, 1831; attended the College of Mining, Meiningen, Germany, in 1849; after the revolution in Ger- BRENNAN, Vincent Morrison, a Representative from many immigrated to the United States and settled in Kala- Michigan; born in Mount Clemens, Macomb County, Mich., Biographies 703

April 22, 1890; moved with his parents to Detroit in 1895; the failure of the revolution, but sought refuge in the United was graduated from SS. Peter and Paul’s Parochial School, States; settled in Kalamazoo County, Mich., and engaged from Detroit College in 1909, from the law department of in agricultural pursuits; moved to Chicago in 1859; was Harvard University in 1912, and from the University of admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Detroit in 1914; was admitted to the bar in 1912 and com- Chicago, Ill; became editor in chief and principal proprietor menced practice in Detroit; legal adviser to the Michigan of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung; member of the State house State Labor Department in 1912 and 1913; assistant cor- of representatives in 1862; member of the Chicago Board poration counsel for the city of Detroit 1915-1920; member of Education 1862-1868; delegate to the Republican National of the State senate in 1919 and 1920; drafted the automobile Convention in 1864; appointed United States consul at Dres- traffic ordinance of Detroit, used as a model for many other den in 1872 and served until April 1876; elected as a Repub- cities; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress lican to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); was not a candidate for 1879); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1878; en- reelection in 1922; elected judge of the circuit court of Wayne gaged in literary pursuits; died in Chicago, Ill., September County, Mich., for the term commencing in January 1924; 18, 1891; interment in Graceland Cemetery. reelected for six successive terms and served until his res- ignation December 31, 1954; practiced law; died in Detroit, BRENTON, Samuel, a Representative from Indiana; Mich., February 4, 1959; interment in Holy Sepulchre Ceme- born in Gallatin County, Ky., November 22, 1810; attended tery, Birmingham, Mich. the public schools; was ordained to the Methodist ministry in 1830 and served as a minister; located at Danville, Ind., BRENNER, John Lewis, a Representative from Ohio; in 1834 because of ill health, and studied law; member of born in Wayne Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, Feb- the State house of representatives 1838-1841; in 1841, re- ruary 2, 1832; attended the common schools and Springfield turned to the ministry and served at Crawfordsville, Perry- (Ohio) Academy; engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1862, ville, Lafayette, and finally at Fort Wayne, where he suf- interested in the nursery business until 1872, and then en- fered a paralytic stroke in 1848 and was compelled to aban- gaged in the production of tobacco; moved to Dayton, Ohio, don his ministerial duties; appointed register of the land in 1866; member of the board of police commissioners 1885- office at Fort Wayne, Ind., on May 2, 1849, and served 1887; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty- until July 31, 1851, when he resigned; elected as a Whig sixth Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1901); unsuccess- to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, ful candidate for renomination in 1900; resumed his former 1853); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1852 to the occupation as a dealer in leaf tobacco; died in Dayton, Mont- Thirty-third Congress; elected as a Republican to the Thirty- gomery County, Ohio, November 1, 1906; interment in fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses and served from March Woodland Cemetery. 4, 1855, until his death in Fort Wayne, Ind., March 29, 1857; interment in Lindenwood Cemetery. BRENT, Richard (uncle of William Leigh Brent and nephew of Daniel Carroll), a Representative and a Senator BRENTS, Thomas Hurley, a Delegate from the Territory from Virginia; born at ‘Richland,’ on the Potomac River, of Washington; born near Florence, Pike County, Ill., Decem- at Aquia Creek, Stafford County, Va., in 1757; studied law; ber 24, 1840; attended the common schools, Portland (Oreg.) admitted to the bar and practiced; member of the Virginia Academy, Baptist Seminary, Oregon City, Oreg., and house of delegates from Stafford County in 1788 and from McMinnville (Oreg.) College; justice of the peace in 1862; Prince William County in 1793, 1794, 1800, and 1801; elect- engaged in the general mercantile business at Canyon City, ed to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses (March 4, 1795-March Oreg., 1863-1866; postmaster of Canyon City in 1863 and 3, 1799); elected again to the Seventh Congress (March 4, 1864; clerk of Grant County, Oreg., 1864-1866; delegate to 1801-March 3, 1803); member, State senate 1808-1810; elect- the Union-Republican convention of Oregon in 1866; member ed to the United States Senate and served from March 4, of the State house of representatives in 1866; studied law; 1809, until his death in Washington, D.C., on December was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice 30, 1814; interment in the family burial ground at ‘Rich- in San Francisco, Calif., in 1867; moved to Walla Walla, land,’ on the Potomac River, at Aquia Creek. Wash., in 1870; city attorney of Walla Walla in 1871 and 1872; presided over the Republican Territorial convention BRENT, William Leigh (nephew of Richard Brent), a at Vancouver in 1874; elected as a Republican to the Forty- Representative from Louisiana; born at Port Tobacco, sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses (March Charles County, Md., February 20, 1784; studied law and 4, 1879-March 3, 1885); unsuccessful candidate for renomi- was admitted to the bar; moved to Louisiana about 1809 nation in 1884; resumed the practice of law; judge of the and commenced practice; appointed by President Madison superior court of Walla Walla 1896-1913; died in Walla as deputy attorney general for the western district of the Walla, Wash., October 23, 1916; interment in Blue Mountain Territory of Orleans; elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Cemetery. and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1829); affiliated with the Whig Party upon its formation; resumed BRETZ, John Lewis, a Representative from Indiana; the practice of law in Louisiana, and in Washington, D.C.; born near Huntingburg, Dubois County, Ind., September 21, died in St. Martinsville, La., July 7, 1848; interment in 1852; attended the country schools and Huntingburg High St. Martin’s Catholic Cemetery. School; taught school 1876-1880; studied law, and was grad- uated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1880; was admitted BRENTANO, Lorenzo, a Representative from Illinois; to the bar and commenced practice in Jasper, Ind.; pros- born in Manneheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, No- ecuting attorney of the eleventh judicial circuit 1884-1890; vember 4, 1813; studied jurisprudence in the Universities elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third of Heidelberg and Freiburg and was graduated; practiced Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful before the supreme court of Baden; elected to the Chamber candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; of Deputies and in 1848 to the Frankfort Parliament; presi- judge of the circuit court of Pike and Dubois Counties from dent of the provisional republic established by the revolu- 1895 until his death; delegate to the Democratic National tionists in 1849; sentenced to imprisonment for life after Convention in 1900; died in Jasper, Dubois County, Ind., 704 Biographical Directory

December 25, 1920; interment in Fairmount Cemetery, senate 1872-1874; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Huntingburg, Ind. and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1881); appointed consul general to Berlin on June 30, 1881, by BREVARD, Joseph, a Representative from South Caro- President Garfield and served from August 29, 1881, until lina; born in Iredell, Iredell County, N.C., July 19, 1766; June 7, 1885; elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Con- entered the Continental Army when still a boy; was commis- gresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); declined to be a sioned lieutenant in the North Carolina Line in 1782 and candidate for renomination in 1890; resumed the practice served throughout the Revolutionary War; moved to Cam- of law in Pontiac, Mich.; delegate to the Republican National den, S.C.; sheriff of Camden District 1789-1791; commis- Convention in 1896; appointed a member of the United sioner in equity October 14, 1791; studied law; was admitted States Civil Service Commission by President William to the bar in 1792 and commenced practice in Camden, McKinley January 18, 1898, and served until his death in S.C.; engaged in the compilation of the law reports which Washington, D.C., March 18, 1901; interment in Oak Hill bear his name 1793-1815; member of South Carolina house Cemetery, Pontiac, Mich. of representatives, 1796-1799; elected judge of the State su- preme court December 17, 1801, and served until December BREWER, Willis, a Representative from Alabama; born 1815, when he resigned; resumed the practice of law in near Livingston, Sumter County, Ala., March 15, 1844; at- Camden; elected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819- tended the common schools; entered the Confederate Army March 3, 1821); was not a candidate for renomination in at the age of eighteen years; journalist, author, and planter; 1820; unsuccessful candidate for Congress at a special elec- studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1870 and com- tion held in 1821; died in Camden, Kershaw County, S.C., menced practice at Haynesville, Ala.; treasurer of Lowndes October 11, 1821; interment in the Quaker Cemetery. County in 1871; State auditor 1876-1880; member of the State house of representatives 1880-1882; served in the BREWER, Francis Beattie, a Representative from New State senate 1882-1890; again a member of the State house York; born in Keene, Cheshire County, N.H., October 8, of representatives 1890-1894; again served in the State sen- 1820; attended the Barnet (Vt.) public schools, Newbury ate 1894-1897; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and (Vt.) Seminary, and Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, Fifty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1901); un- N.H.; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, successful candidate for renomination in 1900; resumed the N.H., in 1843 and from the medical department of the same practice of law and continued his work as an author until institution in 1846; practiced medicine in Barnet, Vt., Plym- his death in Montgomery, Ala., on October 30, 1912; inter- outh, Mass., and Titusville, Pa., from 1849 to 1861; pioneer ment in the family mausoleum on Cedars plantation, near oil operator and lumberman in Titusville, Pa.; moved to Montgomery, Ala. Westfield, N.Y., in 1861 and engaged in banking, manufac- turing, and agricultural pursuits; State military agent with BREWSTER, Daniel Baugh, a Representative and a rank of major during the Civil War; member of the board Senator from Maryland; born in Baltimore County, Md., No- of supervisors of Chautauqua County, N.Y., 1868-1879; dele- vember 23, 1923; educated at Gilman School, Baltimore, gate to the Republican National Convention in 1872; mem- Md., St. Paul’s School, Concord, N.H., Princeton University, ber of the State assembly in 1873 and 1874; Government and Johns Hopkins University; during the Second World director of the Union Pacific Railroad four years under Presi- War enlisted as a private in the United States Marine Corps dents Grant and Hayes; appointed manager of the State in 1942; commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1943 and insane asylum, Buffalo, N.Y., in 1881; elected as a Repub- served until 1946; graduated from the University of Mary- lican to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March land Law School in 1949; admitted to the bar in 1949 and 3, 1885); was not a candidate for reelection in 1884; resumed commenced practice in Towson, Md.; member, Maryland the practice of medicine; died in Westfield, Chautauqua house of delegates 1950-1958; elected as a Democrat to the County, N.Y., July 29, 1892; interment in Allegheny Ceme- Eighty-sixth and Eighty-seventh Congresses (January 3, tery, Pittsburgh, Pa. 1959-January 3, 1963); was not a candidate for renomination in 1962; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate BREWER, John Hart, a Representative from New Jer- in 1962 and served from January 3, 1963, to January 3, sey; born in Hunterdon County, N.J., March 29, 1844; at- 1969; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1968; after tended the Lawrenceville schools and Trenton Academy; was indictment in 1969, trial, conviction, and reversal, pleaded graduated from the Delaware Literary Institution, Franklin, no contest in 1975 to a felony charge of accepting an illegal Delaware County, N.Y., in 1862; moved to Trenton, N.J., gratuity while a United States Senator; farmer; is a resident in 1865 and engaged in the manufacture of pottery; member of Glyndon, Md. of the State house of assembly in 1876; president of the National Potters’ Association in 1879; elected as a Repub- BREWSTER, David P., a Representative from New York; lican to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses born in Cairo, Greene County, N.Y., June 15, 1801; attended (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1885); resumed the manufacture the common schools, and was graduated from Union College, of pottery until 1895, when he engaged in the insurance Schenectady, N.Y., in 1823; moved to New York City; stud- business; appointed assistant appraiser of merchandise at ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced the port of New York City by President McKinley and served practice in Oswego, N.Y.; trustee of the village of Oswego until his death in Trenton, N.J., December 21, 1900; inter- in 1828, 1836, and 1845; prosecuting attorney of Oswego ment in Riverview Cemetery. County 1829-1833; treasurer of the village of Oswego 1832- 1834, and served as its president in 1837; judge of the BREWER, Mark Spencer, a Representative from Michi- court of common pleas 1833-1841; elected as a Democrat gan; born in Addison Township, Oakland County, Mich., to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March October 22, 1837; attended the rural schools and Romeo 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); appointed postmaster of Oswego, and Oxford Academies; studied law; was admitted to the N.Y., on July 21, 1845, and served until January 10, 1849, bar in 1864 and commenced practice in Pontiac, Mich.; city when his successor was appointed; resumed the practice of attorney of Pontiac in 1866 and 1867; circuit court commis- law; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the sioner for Oakland County 1866-1869; member of the State excise board commission and served as president 1870-1873; Biographies 705

died in Oswego, Oswego County, N.Y., February 20, 1876; War enlisted in the university company in April 1861 and interment in Riverside Cemetery. served in West Virginia; graduated from Miami University in June 1863; recruited a company, reentered the Civil War BREWSTER, Henry Colvin, a Representative from New as captain of that company and served until July 1865, York; born in Rochester, N.Y., September 7, 1845; attended attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel; studied law at the the public schools; became a clerk in the Traders’ National University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; admitted to the Cin- Bank in 1863; employed as cashier 1868-1894, president cinnati bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Lima, Allen 1907-1917, and chairman of the board 1917-1923; vice presi- County, Ohio; member of the Democratic National Com- dent of the New York State League of Republican Clubs mittee, serving as chairman in 1889; elected as a Democrat and president of the Monroe County League; president of to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1891, the Rochester Chamber of Commerce in 1893 and 1902; to March 3, 1897; was not a candidate for reelection; chair- one of the organizers of the New York State Bankers’ Asso- man, Committee on Pacific Railroads (Fifty-third Congress); ciation, serving as vice president in 1894 and president in died in New York City, December 15, 1898; interment in 1899; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty- Woodlawn Cemetery, Lima, Ohio. fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1899); chairman, Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Fifty-fifth Congress); ography; Havighurst, Walter. ‘The World of Calvin Brice.’ In Men of Old was not a candidate for renomination in 1898; vice president Miami, 1809-1873, pp. 209-24. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974. of the National League of Republican Clubs in 1897; re- sumed banking and other business activities; delegate to BRICK, , a Representative from Indi- the Republican National Convention in 1900; retired in ana; born on his father’s farm, near South Bend, St. Joseph 1923; died January 29, 1928, in Canandaigua, N.Y., while County, Ind., May 27, 1860; attended the common schools on a visit; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, and was graduated from the South Bend High School; later N.Y. attended Cornell and Yale Colleges, and was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann BREWSTER, Ralph Owen, a Representative and a Sen- Arbor in 1883; was admitted to the bar the same year and ator from Maine; born in Dexter, Penobscot County, Maine, commenced practice in South Bend, St. Joseph County, Ind.; February 22, 1888; attended the public schools; graduated prosecuting attorney for the counties of St. Joseph and La from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1909, and from Porte in 1886; delegate to the Republican National Conven- the law department of Harvard University 1913; high school tion in 1896; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and principal 1910; admitted to the bar in 1913 and commenced to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March practice in Portland, Maine; member of the Portland school 4, 1899, until his death in Indianapolis, Ind., April 7, 1908; committee 1915-1923; member, State house of representa- interment in Riverview Cemetery, South Bend, Ind. tives 1917-1918, but resigned to enter military service; served successively as private, second lieutenant, captain, BRICKER, John William, a Senator from Ohio; born and regimental adjutant, Third Infantry, Maine National on a farm near Mount Sterling, Madison County, Ohio, Sep- Guard; member, State house of representatives 1921-1923; tember 6, 1893; attended the country schools; graduated member of the State senate 1923-1925; Governor of Maine from Ohio State University at Columbus in 1916 and from 1925-1929; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Sev- its law department in 1920; admitted to the bar in 1917 enty-third Congress in 1932; elected as a Republican to the and commenced practice in Columbus, Ohio, in 1920; during Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth Congresses the First World War served as first lieutenant and chaplain (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1941); did not seek renomina- in the United States Army in 1917 and 1918; solicitor for tion in 1940, having become a candidate for United States Grandview Heights, Ohio 1920-1928; assistant attorney gen- Senator; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate eral of Ohio 1923-1927; member of the Public Utilities Com- in 1940; reelected in 1946 and served from January 3, 1941, mission of Ohio 1929-1932; attorney general of Ohio 1933- until his resignation December 31, 1952; unsuccessful can- 1937; Governor of Ohio 1939-1945; unsuccessful Republican didate for renomination in 1952; chairman, Special Com- candidate for Vice President in 1944; elected as a Republican mittee on National Defense (Eightieth Congress); died in to the United States Senate in 1946, reelected in 1952 and Boston, Mass., December 25, 1961; interment in Mount served from January 3, 1947, to January 3, 1959; unsuccess- Pleasant Cemetery, Dexter, Maine. ful candidate for reelection in 1958; chairman, Committee Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Maher, Sister M. Pat- on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Eighty-third Con- rick Ellen. ‘‘The Role of the Chairman of a Congressional Investigating gress); resumed the practice of law; died in Columbus, Ohio, Committee: A Case Study of the Special Committee of the Senate to In- March 22, 1986; interment in Greenlawn Cemetery. vestigate the National Defense Program, 1941-1948.’’ Ph.D. dissertation, St. Bibliography: American National Biography; Tananbaum, Duane A. The Louis University, 1962. Bricker Amendment Controversy: A Test of Eisenhower’s Political Leader- ship. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988; Davies, Richard O. Defender BREWSTER, William K., a Representative from Okla- of the Old Guard: John Bricker and American Politics. Columbus: Ohio homa; born in Ardmore, Carter County, Okla., November State University Press, 1993. 8, 1941; attended public schools in Oklahoma and Texas; B.S., Southwestern Oklahoma State University, 1968; mem- BRICKNER, George H., a Representative from Wis- ber, United States Army Reserves, 1966-1971; pharmacist; consin; born in Anspach, Bavaria, Germany, January 21, rancher; owner of a real estate company; member, Oklahoma 1834; immigrated to the United States in 1840 with his house of representatives, 1983-1990; elected as a Democrat parents, who settled in Seneca County, Ohio; attended the to the One Hundred Second and to the two succeeding con- public schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Tiffin, gresses (January 3, 1991-January 3, 1997); was not a can- Ohio, 1850-1855; moved to Cascade, Wis., in 1855 and again didate for reelection to the One Hundred Fifth Congress engaged in mercantile pursuits; operated a flour mill until in 1996. 1868, when he engaged in the manufacture of woolens at Sheboygan Falls, Wis.; established a glass factory in Tiffin, BRICE, Calvin Stewart, a Senator from Ohio; born in Ohio, in 1889; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first, Fifty- Denmark, Ashtabula County, Ohio, September 17, 1845; at- second, and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1889-March tended Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; during the Civil 3, 1895); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the De- 706 Biographical Directory

partment of the Treasury (Fifty-second Congress); was not 3, 1849; was not a candidate for renomination in 1848; elect- a candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Con- ed to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, gress; lived in retirement in Sheboygan Falls, Sheboygan 1855); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854 to the County, Wis., until his death on August 12, 1904; interment Thirty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law; elected in St. Mary’s Cemetery. to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); was not a candidate for renomination in 1878; continued BRIDGES, George Washington, a Representative from the practice of law in Allentown, Pa., where he died January Tennessee; born in Charleston, Bradley County, Tenn., Octo- 14, 1884; interment in Union Cemetery. ber 9, 1825; attended East Tennessee University at Knox- ville; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and BRIDGES, Styles, a Senator from New Hampshire (See commenced practice in Athens, McMinn County, Tenn.; also BRIDGES, Henry Styles) engaged in agricultural pursuits; attorney general of Ten- nessee 1849-1860; elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-sev- BRIGGS, Clay Stone, a Representative from Texas; born enth Congress, but was arrested by Confederate troops while in Galveston, Tex., January 8, 1876; attended private and en route to Washington, D.C., taken back to Tennessee, public schools, the University of Texas at Austin, and Har- and held as a prisoner for more than a year; finally made vard Unversity; was graduated from the law department his escape and went to Washington, D.C., and assumed his of Yale University in 1899; was admitted to the bar the duties; qualified and took his seat in the House of Rep- same year and commenced the practice of law in Galveston, resentatives on February 25, 1863, and served until March Tex.; member of the State house of representatives 1906- 3, 1863; enlisted in the Union Army as a captain on August 1908; served as judge of the tenth judicial district of Texas 25, 1863; mustered in as a lieutenant colonel in the Tenth from June 15, 1909, until February 1, 1919, when he re- Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry February 23, 1864, and was signed, having been elected to Congress; elected as a Demo- discharged December 29, 1864; elected circuit judge of the crat to the Sixty-sixth and to the seven succeeding Con- fourth judicial district of Tennessee in 1866 and served gresses and served from March 4, 1919, until his death about one year; died in Athens, Tenn., March 16, 1873; in Washington, D.C., April 29, 1933; interment in Oakwood interment in Cedar Grove Cemetery. Cemetery, Syracuse, N.Y. BRIDGES, Henry Styles (Styles), a Senator from New BRIGGS, Frank Obadiah (son of James Frankland Hampshire; born in West Pembroke, Washington County, Briggs), a Senator from New Jersey; born in Concord, N.H., Maine, September 9, 1898; attended the public schools; grad- August 12, 1851; attended the public schools, Francestown uated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1918; in- (N.H.) Academy, and Phillips Academy, Exeter, N.H.; grad- structor at Sanderson Academy, Ashfield, Mass., 1918-1919; uated from the United States Military Academy at West member of the extension staff of the University of New Point in 1872; served in the Second Regiment, United States Hampshire at Durham 1921-1922; secretary of the New Infantry, as second lieutenant until 1877, when he resigned Hampshire Farm Bureau Federation 1922-1923; editor of from the Army; moved to Trenton, N.J., in 1877 and engaged the Granite Monthly Magazine 1924-1926; director and sec- in the manufacture of wire and wire products; member of retary of the New Hampshire Investment Co. 1924-1929; the Trenton School Board 1884-1892; mayor of Trenton member of the New Hampshire Public Service Commission 1899-1902; member of the State board of education 1901- 1930-1934; lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve 1902; State treasurer 1902-1907; chairman of the Republican Corps 1925-1937; Governor of New Hampshire 1934-1936; State committee 1904-1911; elected as a Republican to the elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1936, United States Senate and served from March 4, 1907, to 1942, 1948, 1954, and again in 1960, and served from Janu- March 3, 1913; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chair- ary 3, 1937, until his death on November 26, 1961; minority man, Committee on Geological Survey (Sixty-first Congress), leader 1952-1953; served as President pro tempore of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense Senate during the Eighty-third Congress; chairman, Joint (Sixty-second Congress); resumed his former business pur- Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation (Eightieth Con- suits in Trenton, N.J., where he died May 8, 1913; interment gress), Joint Committee on Inaugural Arrangements (Eighty- in Riverview Cemetery. second and Eighty-fourth Congresses), Committee on Appro- BRIGGS, Frank Parks, a Senator from Missouri; born priations (Eightieth and Eighty-third Congresses), Repub- in Armstrong, Howard County, Mo., February 25, 1894; at- lican Policy Committee (Eighty-fourth through Eighty-sev- tended Armstrong and Fayette schools and Central College enth Congresses); died in East Concord, N.H., November at Fayette, Mo. 1911-1914; graduated from the University 26, 1961; interment in Pine Grove Cemetery. Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- of Missouri at Columbia in 1915; engaged in the newspaper ography; Kiepper, James J. Styles Bridges: Yankee Senator. Sugar Hill, business in 1915 and in the publishing business at Macon, NH: Phoenix Publishing, 2001; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Henry Mo., in 1925; mayor of Macon, Mo. 1930-1932; member, S. Bridges. 87th Cong., 2nd sess., 1962. Washington, D.C.: Government State senate 1933-1944; appointed on January 18, 1945, as Printing Office, 1962. a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Harry S. Truman and served BRIDGES, Samuel Augustus, a Representative from from January 18, 1945, to January 3, 1947; unsuccessful Pennsylvania; born in Colchester, Conn., January 27, 1802; candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1946; pursued an academic course, and was graduated from Wil- resumed the newspaper publishing business; chairman, Mis- liams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1826; studied law; souri State Conservation Commission 1955-1956; Assistant was admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced practice Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife 1961-1965; in Doylestown, Pa.; moved to Allentown, Lehigh County, was a resident of Macon, Mo., until his death on September Pa., in 1830, where he continued the practice of law; town 23, 1992; interment in Walnut Ridge Cemetery, Fayette, clerk 1837-1842; deputy attorney general of the State for Mo. Lehigh County 1837-1844; delegate to the Democratic State convention in 1841; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth BRIGGS, George, a Representative from New York; born Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John near Broadalbin, Fulton County, N.Y., May 6, 1805; moved W. Hornbeck and served from March 6, 1848, to March to Vermont, in 1812 with his parents, who settled in Biographies 707

Bennington; attended the public schools; engaged in busi- St. Albans High School in 1898 and from Middlebury (Vt.) ness as a dealer in hardware; member of the Vermont house College in 1903; engaged in agricultural pursuits and the of representatives in 1837; returned to New York, settled breeding of dairy cattle; auditor for the town of St. Albans in New York City in 1838, and continued in the hardware in 1911 and 1912; State commissioner of agriculture 1913- business; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first and Thirty- 1924; member of the National Agricultural Advisory Com- second Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); declined mittee and of the United States Food Administration, Wash- to be a candidate for renomination in 1852; elected as a ington, D.C., in 1918; trustee of Middlebury College 1922- Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859- 1960; director, National Life Insurance Co., in 1925; elected March 3, 1861); chairman, Committee on Revolutionary as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy- Claims (Thirty-sixth Congress); declined to be a candidate first Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1931); was not for renomination in 1860 and retired; delegate to the Union a candidate for renomination in 1930; member of Recon- National Convention at Philadelphia in 1866; died at his struction Finance Corporation in 1932; chairman of Vermont summer home, ‘‘Woodlawn,’’ at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., June Advisory Banking Board, 1933-1936; president, National Life 1, 1869; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, New York City. Insurance Co., Montpelier, Vt., 1937-1948; president, Frank- lin County Savings Bank & Trust Co., St. Albans, Vt., 1944- BRIGGS, George Nixon, a Representative from Massa- 1957 and chairman of the board 1957-1962; died in St. Al- chusetts; born in Adams, Mass., April 12, 1796; when seven bans City, Vt., July 5, 1962; interment in St. Albans Bay years of age moved with his parents to Manchester, Vt., Cemetery, St. Albans Town, Vt. and, two years later, to White Creek, N.Y.; attended the public schools; moved to Lanesboro, Mass., in 1814; appren- BRIGHAM, Elijah, a Representative from Massachusetts; ticed to the hatter’s trade; studied law; was admitted to born in Westboro (now Northboro), Mass., July 7, 1751; was the bar in 1818 and commenced practice in Lanesboro; reg- graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1778; ister of deeds for Berkshire County 1824-1831; elected town studied law, but did not practice; engaged in mercantile clerk in 1824; appointed chairman of the board of commis- pursuits at Westboro; member of the State house of rep- sioners of highways in 1826; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian resentatives 1791-1793; justice of the court of common pleas to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses and as 1795-1811; served in the State senate in 1796, 1798, 1801- a Whig to the Twenty-fourth through Twenty-seventh Con- 1805, and 1807-1810; State councilor in 1799, 1800, and gresses (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1843); chairman, Com- 1806; elected as a Federalist to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, mittee on Public Expenditures (Twenty-sixth Congress), and Fourteenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1811, Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads (Twenty-sev- until his death in Washington, D.C., February 22, 1816; enth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in interment in the Congressional Cemetery. 1842; moved to Pittsfield in 1843; Governor of Massachu- BRIGHAM, Lewis Alexander, a Representative from setts 1844-1851; resumed the practice of law in Pittsfield; New Jersey; born at New York Mills, Oneida County, N.Y., member of the State constitutional convention in 1853; judge January 2, 1831; attended the district schools and of the court of common pleas 1853-1858; appointed in 1861 Whitestown Seminary, Whitesboro, N.Y.; was graduated as a member of a commission to adjust differences between from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1849; studied law; the United States and New Granada; accidentally killed in was admitted to the bar in 1855 and commenced practice Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Mass., on September 11, 1861; in New York City; superintendent of public schools, Bergen, interment in the Pittsfield Cemetery. N.J., 1866-1870; member of the board of police commis- Bibliography: Richards, William Carey. Great in goodness: A memoir of sioners of Jersey City 1874-1876; member of the State house George N. Briggs, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, from 1844-1851. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1866. Reprint, New York, Sheldon of assembly in 1877; elected as a Republican to the Forty- and Company; [etc., etc.], 1867. sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1880 to the Forty-eighth Con- BRIGGS, James Frankland (father of Frank Obadiah gress; resumed the practice of law in New York City; died Briggs), a Representative from New Hampshire; born in in Jersey City, N.J., February 19, 1885; interment in Old Bury, Lancashire, England, October 23, 1827; immigrated Bergen Church Cemetery. to the United States in 1829 with his parents, who settled in Holderness (now Ashland), N.H.; attended the common BRIGHT, Jesse David, a Senator from Indiana; born schools and Newbury Academy; studied law; was admitted in Norwich, Chenango County, N.Y., December 18, 1812; to the bar in 1851 and practiced in Hillsboro, N.H., until moved with his parents to Madison, Ind., in 1820; attended 1871; moved to Manchester, N.H.; member of the State the public schools; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1831 house of representatives 1856-1858 and in 1874; during the and commenced practice in Madison, Jefferson County, Ind.; Civil War served as major of the Eleventh Regiment, New elected judge of the probate court of Jefferson County in Hampshire Volunteer Infantry; served in the State senate 1834; United States marshal for the district of Indiana 1840- in 1876; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth, Forty- 1841; member, State senate 1841-1843; lieutenant governor sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1877-March of Indiana 1843-1845; elected as a Democrat to the United 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the De- States Senate in 1845; reelected in 1850 and 1856 and partment of War (Forty-seventh Congress); was not a can- served from March 4, 1845, to February 5, 1862, when he didate for renomination in 1882; resumed the practice of was expelled for acknowledging Jefferson Davis as ‘President law; again a member of the State house of representatives of the Confederate States’ and support of the rebellion; in 1883, 1891, and 1897, serving as speaker in 1897; dele- served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the gate to the State constitutional convention in 1889; died Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth and Thirty-sixth Congresses; in Manchester, N.H., January 21, 1905; interment in Green chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Twenty-ninth Con- Grove Cemetery, Ashland, Grafton County, N.H. gress), Committee on Public Buildings (Twenty-ninth Con- gress), Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Thirtieth Con- BRIGHAM, Elbert Sidney, a Representative from gress), Committee on Roads and Canals (Thirty-first through Vermont; born in St. Albans, Franklin County, Vt., October Thirty third Congresses), Committee on Public Buildings 19, 1877; attended the graded schools; was graduated from and Grounds (Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses); un- 708 Biographical Directory

successful candidate for election in 1863 to the United States 1949-1951; was a pilot in the United States Air Force, 1951- Senate to fill the vacancy caused by his expulsion; moved 1956; graduated from the University of Georgia School of to Carrollton, Ky., in 1863 and then to Covington, Ky.; mem- Law in 1959; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- ber, State house of representatives 1866; president of the tice in Columbus, Ga., in 1959; elected to the State house Raymond City Coal Co., 1871-1875; moved to Baltimore in of representatives in 1965-1966; elected as a Democrat to 1874; died in Baltimore, Md., May 20, 1875; interment in the Ninetieth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (Janu- Greenmount Cemetery. ary 3, 1967-January 3, 1983); was not a candidate for reelec- Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- tion in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress; is a resident ography; Cooney, Charles F. ‘‘Treason or Tyranny? The Great Senate of Columbus, Ga. Purge of ‘62.’’ Civil War Times Illustrated 18 (July 1979): 30-31; Murphy, Charles. ‘‘The Political Career of Jesse Bright.’’ Indiana Historical Society BRINSON, Samuel Mitchell, a Representative from Publications 10 (1931): 101-45. North Carolina; born in New Bern, Craven County, N.C., March 20, 1870; attended private and public schools, and BRIGHT, John Morgan, a Representative from Ten- was graduated from Wake Forest College, North Carolina, nessee; born in Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tenn., January in 1891; taught school in New Bern one year; was graduated 20, 1817; attended the schools of Fayetteville and Bingham’s from the law department of the University of North Carolina School, Hillsboro, N.C.; was graduated from Nashville at Chapel Hill in 1895; was admitted to the North Carolina (Tenn.) University in September 1839 and from the law bar in 1896 and commenced the practice of law in New department of Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., in Bern, N.C.; served as county superintendent of public in- March 1841; was admitted to the bar in 1841 and com- struction in Craven County 1902-1919; president of the At- menced practice in Fayetteville, Tenn.; member of the State lantic & North Carolina Railroad Company in 1918; elected house of representatives in 1847 and 1848; served as general as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Con- on the staff of Gov. Isham G. Harris 1861-1865; elected gresses and served from March 4, 1919, until his death as a Democrat to the Forty-second and to the four suc- in New Bern, N.C., April 13, 1922; interment in Cedar Grove ceeding Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1881); chair- Cemetery. man, Committee on Claims (Forty-fourth through Forty- sixth Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in the De- BRISBIN, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; partment of the Treasury (Forty-fourth Congress); unsuc- born in Sherburne, Chenango County, N.Y., July 13, 1818; cessful candidate for reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventh taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar and Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Fayetteville, commenced practice in Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pa., Tenn., October 3, 1911; interment in the Presbyterian about 1843; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first Con- Churchyard. gress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Chester Butler (January 13, 1851- BRINKERHOFF, Henry Roelif (cousin of Jacob March 3, 1851); president of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Brinkerhoff), a Representative from Ohio; born in Adams Western Railway Co., 1863-1867 and member of the board County, Pa., September 23, 1787; moved with his parents of managers and general counsel from 1867 until his death to Cayuga County, N.Y., in 1793; attended the country in Newark, N.J., February 3, 1880; interment in Evergreen schools; commanded a company of militia in the War of Cemetery, Elizabeth, N.J. 1812, distinguishing himself in the Battle of Queenstown Heights; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the BRISTOW, Francis Marion, a Representative from Ken- State assembly in 1828 and 1829; senior major general of tucky; born in Clark County, Ky., August 11, 1804; pursued the New York State Militia in 1824; commanded the military preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar escort which accompanied General Lafayette in his progress and commenced practice in Elkton; member of the State through the State; moved to Huron County, Ohio, in 1837; house of representatives 1831-1833; served in the State sen- elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress and ate in 1846; delegate to the State constitutional convention served from March 4, 1843, until his death in Huron County, in 1849; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress Ohio, April 30, 1844; interment in the Pioneer Cemetery, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Presley Underwood Plymouth, Richland County, Ohio. Ewing and served from December 4, 1854, to March 3, 1855; elected as a candidate of the Opposition Party to the Thirty- BRINKERHOFF, Jacob (cousin of Henry Roelif sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); was not a Brinkerhoff), a Representative from Ohio; born in Niles, Ca- candidate for reelection in 1860; resumed the practice of yuga County, N.Y., August 31, 1810; attended the public law; member of the House Committee of Thirty-three ap- schools and Plattsburg Academy, Steuben County, N.Y.; pointed by the Speaker in December 1860 to consider pro- studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1837 and com- posals to avert the impending disaster and also attended menced practice in Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio; moved the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in to Plymouth, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Richland County, an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; Ohio, 1839-1843; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth died in Elkton, Todd County, Ky., June 10, 1864; interment and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, in the family burying ground. 1847); chairman, Committee on Invalid Pensions (Twenty- Bibliography: Webb, Ross A. ‘‘Francis Marion Bristow, A Study in Un- eighth Congress); resumed the practice of law in Mansfield, ionism.’’ Filson Club History Quarterly 37 (April 1963): 142-58. Ohio; affiliated with the Republican Party on its formation in 1856; delegate to numerous Republican National Conven- BRISTOW, Henry, a Representative from New York; tions; justice of the supreme court of Ohio 1856-1871; died born in St. Michael, Azores Islands, June 5, 1840; immi- in Mansfield, Ohio, July 19, 1880; interment in Mansfield grated to the United States with his parents, who settled Cemetery. in Brooklyn, N.Y.; attended public and private schools; en- gaged in mercantile pursuits until 1896; served as a private BRINKLEY, Jack Thomas, a Representative from Geor- in Company B, Seventh Regiment, New York State Militia, gia; born in Faceville, Decatur County, Ga., December 22, from April 26, 1861, to June 3, 1861; appointed city mag- 1930; attended the public schools of Faceville, Ga.; grad- istrate in 1896; member of the board of education of Brook- uated from Young Harris College in 1949; taught school, lyn 1880-1889; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Biographies 709

Congress (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1903); unsuccessful can- tieth Congress; special assistant United States attorney in didate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress; 1906 and 1907; member of the State senate 1909-1911; spe- appointed public administrator of Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1904 cial counsel to the Post Office Department, July 1, 1909- and served until his death in that city October 11, 1906; December 1, 1910; special assistant to the Attorney General, interment in Greenwood Cemetery. July 13, 1910-December 1, 1910; appointed Third Assistant Postmaster General by President Taft on December 1, 1910, BRISTOW, Joseph Little, a Senator from Kansas; born and served until March 17, 1913; elected as a Republican near Hazel Green, Wolf County, Ky., July 22, 1861; moved to the Sixty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1917); with his father to Fredonia, Kans., in 1873; attended the successfully contested the election of Zebulon Weaver to the country schools, and graduated from Baker University, Bald- Sixty-fifth Congress (March 1, 1919-March 3, 1919); unsuc- win, Kans., in 1886; clerk of the district court of Douglas cessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-sixth Congress County 1886-1890; in 1890 bought the Salina (Kans.) Daily in 1918; resumed the practice of law in Asheville, N.C.; Republican, which he edited for five years; elected secretary served as chief counsel for the Bureau of Prohibition, Treas- of the Republican State committee in 1894; private secretary ury Department, 1922-1932; was an unsuccessful candidate to the Governor 1895-1897; purchased the Ottawa (Kans.) for chief justice of the supreme court of North Carolina Herald, which he owned for more than ten years; again in 1926; resumed the practice of law in 1933; died on Decem- elected secretary of the Republican State committee in 1898; ber 26, 1939, in Asheville, N.C.; interment in Riverside Cem- Fourth Assistant Postmaster General 1897-1905; purchased etery. the Salina Daily Republican-Journal in 1903; appointed a special commissioner of the Panama Railroad in 1905; elect- BRITTEN, Frederick Albert, a Representative from Illi- ed as a Republican to the United States Senate and served nois; born in Chicago, Du Page County, Ill., November 18, from March 4, 1909, to March 3, 1915; was an unsuccessful 1871; attended Healds Business College, San Francisco, candidate for renomination in 1914; chairman, Committee Calif.; construction worker; business executive; member of on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Sixty-first the Chicago, Ill., city council, 1908-1912; member and chair- and Sixty-second Congresses), Committee on Cuban Rela- man of the city civil service committee, Chicago, Ill., 1909; tions (Sixty-third Congress); temporarily engaged in agricul- member of the executive committee of the American group tural pursuits with his son near Fairfax, Va.; chairman of of the Interparliamentary Union, 1923-1934; delegate to the the Kansas Utilities Commission 1915-1918; engaged in ag- Republican National Convention, 1936; elected as a Repub- ricultural pursuits on his estate, ‘‘Ossian Hall,’’ near Fairfax, lican to the Sixty-third and to the ten succeeding Congresses Va., from 1918 until his death there July 14, 1944; inter- (March 4, 1913-January 3, 1935); chairman, Committee on ment in Gypsum Hill Cemetery, Salina, Kans. Naval Affairs (Seventieth and Seventy-first Congress); un- Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- successful candidate for reelection to the Seventy-fourth ography; Sageser, A. Bower. Joseph L. Bristow: Kansas Progressive. Law- Congress in 1934; died on May 4, 1946, in Bethesda, Md.; rence: University Press of Kansas, 1968; Bristow, Joseph Little. Fraud and interment in Abbey Mausoleum, Arlington, Va.; reinterment Politics at the Turn of the Century. Edited by Joseph Q. Bristow and to unknown location. Frank B. Bristow. New York: Exposition Press, 1952. Bibliography: Vander Meer, Philip R. ‘‘Congressional Decision-Making BRITT, Charles Robin, a Representative from North and World War I: A Case Study of Illinois Congressional Opponents.’’ Con- Carolina; born in San Antonio, Bexar County, Tex., June gressional Studies 8 (1981): 59-79; West Michael Allen. ‘‘Laying the Legis- lative Foundation: The House Naval Affairs Committee and the Construc- 29, 1942; educated in Asheville, N.C. schools; graduated, tion of the Treaty Navy, 1926-1934.’’ Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, Enka High School, Asheville, N.C., 1959; B.A., University 1980. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1963; J.D.,University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1973; LL.M., New York Univer- BROADHEAD, James Overton, a Representative from sity, New York City, 1976; admitted to the North Carolina Missouri; born in Charlottesville, Va., May 29, 1819; at- bar, 1973, and commenced practice in Greensboro; United tended the high school in Albemarle County and the Univer- States Naval Reserve, 1963-1984; chairman, Guilford County sity of Virginia at Charlottesville; moved to Missouri in Democratic Party, 1979-1981; delegate, North Carolina State 1837; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1842 and Democratic convention, 1980; delegate, Democratic National commenced practice in Bowling Green, Pike County, Mo.; Convention, 1980; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety- delegate to the State constitutional conventions in 1845, eighth Congress (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1985); unsuc- 1861, 1863, and 1875; member of the State house of rep- cessful candidate for reelection to the Ninety-ninth Con- resentatives in 1846 and 1847; served in the State senate gress; president and director, Project Uplift, Greensboro, 1850-1853; moved to St. Louis in 1859 and continued the N.C.; secretary, North Carolina State department of human practice of law; appointed United States attorney for the resources, 1993 to 1997; staff for North Carolina Governor eastern district of Missouri in 1861; commissioned by Presi- Jim Hunt, 1997-1998; unsuccessful candidate for Democratic dent Lincoln as lieutenant colonel of Volunteers and ap- nomination to the United States House of Representatives pointed provost marshal general of Missouri in 1863; dele- in 2002; is a resident of Greensboro, N.C. gate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1868 and 1872; appointed by President Grant as special United States BRITT, James Jefferson, a Representative from North attorney to assist in the prosecution of the so-called ‘‘whisky Carolina; born in Unico County, near Johnson City, Tenn., ring’’ at St. Louis in 1876; president of the American Bar March 4, 1861; attended the common schools and studied Association in 1878; elected as a Democrat to the Forty- under private tutors; principal of Burnsville (N.C.) Academy eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); was not 1886-1893; superintendent of the public schools of Mitchell a candidate for renomination in 1884; appointed a special County 1894-1896; headmaster of Bowman Academy, commissioner on French spoliation claims by President Bakersville, N.C., 1895-1896; deputy collector of internal Cleveland in 1885; Minister to Switzerland 1893-1897; died revenue at Asheville, N.C., 1896-1899; studied law at the in St. Louis, Mo., August 7, 1898; interment in Bellefontaine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; was admitted Cemetery. to the bar in 1900 and commenced practice in Asheville, N.C.; delegate to the Republican National Convention in BROCK, Lawrence, a Representative from Nebraska; 1904; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1906 to the Six- born in Platte County, near Columbus, Nebr., August 16, 710 Biographical Directory

1906; graduated from Leigh High School and from the Uni- fully contested as a Democrat the election of Edward C. versity of Nebraska College of Pharmacy at Lincoln, Nebr., Cabell to the Twenty-ninth Congress and served from Janu- in 1929; engaged as a pharmacist in Madison, Nebr.; cattle ary 24, 1846, to March 3, 1847; died in Tallahassee, Fla., feeder and farmer; former president of Nebraska Livestock January 28, 1850; interment in the Episcopal Cemetery. Feeders Association, Cornbelt Livestock Feeders Association, and Northeast Nebraska Rural Electric Association; member BROCKSON, Franklin, a Representative from Delaware; Nebraska Highway Advisory Commission; delegate to the born in Blackbird Hundred, Newcastle County, Del., August Democratic National Convention in 1956; elected as a Demo- 6, 1865; attended the public schools; was graduated from crat to the Eighty-sixth Congress (January 3, 1959-January the Wilmington Conference Academy at Dover, Del., in 1890; 3, 1961); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in engaged in mercantile pursuits; teacher and principal in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress; appointed assistant the public schools at Port Penn and Marshallton, Del.; was administrator, Farmers Home Administration, Washington, graduated from the law department of Washington and Lee D.C., in February 1961; died in Zion, Ill., on August 28, University, Lexington, Va., in 1896; was admitted to the 1968; interment in the Wakefield Cemetery, Wakefield, bar September 21, 1896, and commenced practice in Wil- Nebr. mington, Del.; member of the State house of representatives 1908-1910; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Con- BROCK, William Emerson (grandfather of William gress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate Emerson Brock III), a Senator from Tennessee; born near for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; resumed Mocksville, Davie County, N.C., March 14, 1872; attended the practice of law in Clayton, and Wilmington, Del.; died the public schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits until in Clayton, Del., March 16, 1942; interment in Odd Fellows 1894; moved to Winston-Salem, N.C., in 1894 and was em- Cemetery, Smyrna, Del. ployed as a clerk in a general store until 1896; tobacco salesman 1896-1901; moved to Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1909 BROCKWAY, John Hall, a Representative from Con- and became engaged in the manufacture of candy; also was necticut; born in Ellington, Tolland County, Conn., January interested in banking and various other business enterprises 31, 1801; pursued preparatory studies and was graduated and was director in a life and accident insurance company; from Yale College, New Haven, Conn., in 1820; taught served as trustee of the University of Chattanooga, Emory school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1823 and and Henry College, and Martha Washington College for commenced practice in Ellington; member of the State house Girls; appointed on September 2, 1929, and subsequently of representatives 1832-1838; served in the State senate in elected on November 4, 1930, as a Democrat to the United 1834; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty- States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); pros- Lawrence D. Tyson and served from September 2, 1929, ecuting attorney for Tolland County from 1849 to 1867, to March 3, 1931; was not a candidate for election to the when he resigned; died in Ellington, Conn., July 29, 1870; full term; resumed the candy manufacturing business until interment in Ellington Center Cemetery. his death in Chattanooga, Tenn., August 5, 1950; interment BRODBECK, Andrew R., a Representative from Penn- in Forest Hills Cemetery. sylvania; born in Jefferson (now Codorus), York County, Pa., Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography. April 11, 1860; attended the public schools; engaged in agri- BROCK, William Emerson, III (grandson of William cultural pursuits; taught in the public schools of York Coun- Emerson Brock), a Representative and a Senator from Ten- ty 1878-1880; moved to Hanover, Pa., in 1880 and engaged nessee; born in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tenn., No- in the farm implement and fertilizer business until 1896; vember 23, 1930; attended schools in Lookout Mountain and sheriff of York County, Pa., 1896-1899; member of the board Chattanooga Tenn.; graduated from Washington and Lee of directors of various business enterprises; unsuccessful University, Lexington, Va., 1953; served in the United candidate for election in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress; States Navy 1953-1956; employed by the Brock Candy Co., elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March becoming vice president of marketing; member of the board 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection of directors of Brock Candy Co.; elected as a Republican in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; elected to the Sixty- to the Eighty-eighth Congress; reelected to the three suc- fifth Congress (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1971); was candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; not a candidate for reelection; was elected as a Republican delegate at large to the Democratic National Convention in 1970 to the United States Senate and served from Janu- in 1920; retired in 1920; died in Hanover, Pa., February ary 3, 1971, to January 3, 1977; unsuccessful candidate for 27, 1937; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery. reelection in 1976; chairman, Republican National Com- BRODERICK, Case (cousin of David Colbreth Broderick mittee 1977-1981; U.S Trade Representative 1981-1985; ap- and Andrew Kennedy), a Representative from Kansas; born pointed Secretary of Labor by President Ronald Reagan near Marion, Grant County, Ind., September 23, 1839; at- 1985-1987; consultant in Washington, D.C.; unsuccessful tended the common schools; moved to Holton, Jackson Coun- candidate for election to the United States Senate from ty, Kans., in 1858 and engaged in agricultural pursuits; Maryland, 1994; is a resident of Annapolis, Maryland. during the Civil War enlisted as a private in the Second Bibliography: Brock, Bill. ‘‘Committees in the Senate.’’ Annals of the Kansas Battery in 1862 and was mustered out at Leaven- American Academy of Political and Social Science 411 (January 1974): 14- 26. worth in August 1865; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice in Holton, Kans.; mayor BROCKENBROUGH, William Henry, a Representative of Holton in 1874 and 1875; prosecuting attorney of Jackson from Florida; born in Virginia February 23, 1812; studied County 1876-1880; member of the State senate 1880-1884; law; was admitted to the bar and settled in Tallahassee, appointed by President Arthur as an associate justice of Fla.; member of the State house of representatives in 1837; the supreme court of the Territory of Idaho in March 1884 served in the State senate 1840-1844, being its president and took up his residence in Boise City, Idaho; served until in 1842; United States district attorney 1841-1843; upon the fall of 1888, when he returned to Holton, Kans., and the admission of Florida as a State into the Union success- resumed the practice of law; elected as a Republican to Biographies 711

the Fifty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses record of Northampton County in 1914; died in Washington, (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1899); unsuccessful candidate for D.C., April 23, 1920; interment in Easton Cemetery, Easton, renomination in 1898; again engaged in the practice of law Pa. in Holton, Kans.; retired from the practice of law and de- voted his time to farming and livestock interests; died in BRODHEAD, Richard (father of Joseph Davis Holton, Kans., April 1, 1920; interment in Holton Cemetery. Brodhead), a Representative and a Senator from Pennsyl- vania; born in Lehman Township, Pike County, Pa., January BRODERICK, David Colbreth (cousin of Andrew Ken- 5, 1811; moved to Easton in 1830; studied law; admitted nedy and Case Broderick), a Senator from California; born to the bar in 1836 and commenced practice in Easton; mem- in Washington, D.C., February 4, 1820, his father having ber, State house of representatives 1837-1839; appointed emigrated from Ireland to work as a stonecutter on the treasurer of Northampton County in 1841; elected as a Dem- Capitol; moved with his parents to New York City in 1823; ocrat to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth attended the common schools; apprenticed to a stonecutter Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1849); chairman, Com- in early youth; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1846 mittee on Revolutionary Pensions (Twenty-ninth Congress); to the Thirtieth Congress; moved to California in 1849 and was not a candidate for renomination in 1848; elected as engaged in smelting and assaying gold; member, State sen- a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from ate 1850-1851, serving as president in 1851; elected as a March 4, 1851, to March 3, 1857; chairman, Committee on Democrat to the United States Senate and served from Claims (Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses), Com- March 4, 1857, until mortally wounded in a duel with the mittee on Revolutionary Claims (Thirty-second Congress); chief justice of the supreme court of California; died near died in Easton, Pa., September 16, 1863; interment in Eas- San Francisco, Calif., September 16, 1859; interment under ton Cemetery. a monument erected by the people of the State in Lone Mountain Cemetery, San Francisco. BRODHEAD, William McNulty, a Representative from Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- Michigan; born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Sep- ography; Quinn, Arthur. The Rivals: William Gwin, David Broderick, and tember 12, 1941; graduated from St. Ignatius High School, the Birth of California. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1994; Williams, Cleveland, Ohio, 1959; A.B., Wayne State University, De- David. David C. Broderick: A Political Portrait. San Marino: Huntington troit, Mich., 1965; J.D., University of Michigan Law School, Library, 1969. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1967; admitted to the Michigan Bar in BRODHEAD, John, a Representative from New Hamp- 1968; lawyer, private practice; member of the Michigan state shire; born in Lower Smithfield, Pa., October 5, 1770; at- house of representatives, 1970; reelected in 1972; delegate tended the common schools and Stroudsburg (Pa.) Academy; to Michigan state Democratic conventions, 1968-1974; elect- studied theology; was ordained a minister and active in min- ed as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth and to the three isterial service for forty-four years; moved in 1796 to New succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1983); England where he became supervisor of Methodist societies was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-eighth Con- in the Connecticut Valley; settled in Canaan, N.H., in 1801; gress in 1982; resumed the practice of law; is a resident moved to Newfields Village, Newmarket, N.H., in 1809; of West Bloomfield, Mich. member of the State senate 1817-1827; officiated as chaplain BROGDEN, Curtis Hooks, a Representative from North of the State house of representatives in 1825; elected as Carolina; born in Goldsboro, Wayne County, N.C., November a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Con- 6, 1816; pursued academic studies; member of the State gresses (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1833); declined to be a house of representatives 1840-1850; comptroller of the State candidate for renomination in 1832 and resumed his min- 1857-1867; appointed collector of internal revenue in 1869; isterial duties; died in Newfields, Rockingham County, N.H., member of the State senate 1868-1872; Lieutenant Governor April 7, 1838; interment in Locust Cemetery. of North Carolina in 1872 and Governor upon the death BRODHEAD, John Curtis, a Representative from New of Governor Caldwell, July 14, 1874; elected as a Republican York; born in Modena, Ulster County, N.Y., October 27, to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); 1780; attended the district schools; engaged in mercantile again a member of the State house of representatives 1886- and agricultural pursuits; sheriff of Ulster County 1825- 1888; represented North Carolina at the centennial celebra- 1828; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress tion in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1876; died in Goldsboro, N.C., (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); was not a candidate for January 5, 1901; interment in Willowdale Cemetery. reelection in 1832; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty- BROMBERG, Frederick George, a Representative from fifth Congress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); chairman, Alabama; born in New York City June 19, 1837; moved Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Twenty-fifth Congress); declined to be a candidate for re- with his parents to Mobile, Ala., in February 1838; attended nomination in 1838; resumed mercantile and agricultural the public schools; was graduated from Harvard University pursuits; died in Modena, Ulster County, N.Y., January 2, in 1858; studied chemistry at Harvard University 1861-1863; 1859; interment in Modena Rural Cemetery. tutor of mathematics at Harvard University 1863-1865; ap- pointed treasurer of the city of Mobile in July 1867 by Maj. BRODHEAD, Joseph Davis (son of Richard Brodhead), Gen. John Pope, who commanded the department, and a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Easton, North- served until January 19, 1869; member of the State senate ampton County, Pa., January 12, 1859; attended the public 1868-1872; appointed postmaster of Mobile in July 1869 but schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1881 and was removed in June 1871; chairman of the Alabama delega- commenced practice in Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pa.; tion to the Liberal Republican Convention at Cincinnati in elected district attorney of Northampton County in 1889; 1872; elected as a Liberal Republican to the Forty-third delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1892 Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessfully con- and 1904; elected to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907- tested the election of Jeremiah Haralson to the Forty-fourth March 3, 1909); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in Congress; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1877 1908; resumed the practice of law in South Bethlehem, and commenced practice in Mobile, Ala.; Alabama commis- Northampton County, Pa.; appointed judge of the courts of sioner of the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 712 Biographical Directory

1893; president of the State bar association in 1906; died United States Senator in 1968; resumed the practice of law in Mobile, Ala., on September 4, 1930; interment in Mag- until 1974, and practiced again from 1979 to 1986; is a nolia Cemetery. resident of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Bibliography: Sizemore, Margaret Davidson. ‘‘Frederick G. Bromberg of Mobile: An Illustrious Character, 1837-1928.’’ The Alabama Review 29 BRONSON, David, a Representative from Maine; born (April 1976): 104-12. in Suffield, Conn., February 8, 1800; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1819; studied law; BROMWELL, Henry Pelham Holmes, a Representative was admitted to the bar in 1823 and commenced practice from Illinois; born in Baltimore, Md., August 26, 1823; in North Anson, Maine; member of the State house of rep- moved with his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1824, and resentatives in 1832 and 1834; justice of the peace; elected thence to Cumberland, Ill., in 1836; attended private schools as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the va- in Ohio and Illinois, and Marshall Academy, Marshall, Ill.; cancy caused by the resignation of George Evans and served becoming an instructor in that academy in 1844; studied from May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843; moved to Augusta, law; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced prac- Maine, in 1843 and resumed the practice of law; member tice in Vandalia, Ill.; edited his father’s newspaper for sev- of the State senate in 1846; moved to Bath, Maine, in 1850 eral years; judge of Fayette County 1853-1857; took an ac- and served as collector of customs until 1853; judge of pro- bate for Sagadahoc County 1854-1857; unsuccessful can- tive part in the founding and building of the Republican didate for election in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress; died Party; moved to Charleston, Coles County, Ill., in 1857; dele- in St. Michaels, Talbot County, Md., November 20, 1863; gate to the State constitutional convention in 1870; elected interment in the Episcopal Cemetery of St. Michael’s Parish. as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1869); unsuccessful candidate for BRONSON, Isaac Hopkins, a Representative from New renomination in 1868; moved to Denver, Colo., in 1870 and York; born in Rutland, N.Y., October 16, 1802; attended continued the practice of law; president of the Denver School the public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar Board 1871-1874; member of the Territorial council in 1874; in 1822 and commenced practice in Watertown, Jefferson delegate to the constitutional convention of Colorado in County, N.Y.; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth 1875; declined the office as judge of Arapahoe County in Congress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); chairman, Com- 1878 and the appointment as chief justice of Utah Territory mittee on Territories (Twenty-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Con- in 1879; appointed by the Governor in 1879 to compile the gress; appointed judge of the fifth judicial district of New general statutes of Colorado; died in Denver, Colo., January York, April 18, 1838; moved to St. Augustine, Fla., and 7, 1903; interment in Riverside Cemetery. a number of years later moved to Palatka, Putnam County, BROMWELL, Jacob Henry, a Representative from Ohio; Fla.; appointed United States judge for the eastern district of Florida, March 14, 1840; upon the admission of Florida born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 11, 1848; resided during his as a State into the Union in 1845 was unanimously chosen boyhood in Newport, Ky.; attended the public schools of Cin- as judge for the eastern circuit; appointed United States cinnati and was graduated from Hughes High School in judge for the district of Florida, August 8, 1846; when the 1864; taught in the public schools of southern Indiana and State was divided he retained the judgeship of the northern of Cincinnati for twenty-three years; was graduated from district and served until his death in Palatka, Fla., on Au- Cincinnati Law College in 1870; was admitted to the bar gust 13, 1855; interment in the Episcopal Church Cemetery. of Hamilton County in 1888 and commenced practice in Cincinnati; mayor of Wyoming, Hamilton County, Ohio, BROOCKS, Moses Lycurgus, a Representative from 1880-1886; assistant county solicitor of Hamilton County Texas; born near San Augustine, San Augustine County, 1888-1892; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third Con- Tex., November 1, 1864; attended the common schools; was gress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John graduated from the law department of the University of A. Caldwell; reelected to the Fifty-fourth and to the three Texas at Austin in 1891 and commenced practice at San Augustine; member of the State house of representatives succeeding Congresses and served from December 3, 1894, in 1892; moved to Beaumont, Jefferson County, Tex.; elected to March 3, 1903; was not a candidate for renomination district attorney of the first judicial district of Texas in in 1902; resumed the practice of law in Cincinnati; judge 1896 and served one term; elected as a Democrat to the of the court of common pleas of Hamilton County 1907- Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1907); re- 1913; declined to be a candidate for renomination; again sumed the practice of law in San Augustine, Tex., and died engaged in the practice of law; died in Wyoming, Ohio, June there May 27, 1908; interment in Old Broocks Cemetery, 4, 1924; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, about four miles east of San Augustine, Tex. Ohio. BROOKE, Edward William, III, a Senator from Massa- BROMWELL, James Edward, a Representative from chusetts; born in Washington, D.C., October 26, 1919; at- Iowa; born in Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, March 26, tended the public schools of Washington, D.C.; graduated 1920; attended Johnson School; graduated from Franklin from Howard University, Washington, D.C., in 1941; grad- High School in 1938 and from the University of Iowa in uated, Boston University Law School 1948; captain, United 1942; during the Second World War entered the United States Army, infantry, with five years of active service in States Army as a private, was assigned to the European the European theater of operations; chairman of Finance theater with Headquarters Information and Education Divi- Commission, city of Boston 1961-1962; elected attorney gen- sion, served four years, and was discharged as a captain; eral of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1962; re- elected in 1964; elected as a Republican to the United States graduated from the Harvard University School of Business Senate in 1966; reelected in 1972 and served from January Administration in 1947; returned to the University of Iowa 3, 1967, to January 3, 1979; unsuccessful candidate for re- to study law and was graduated in 1950; was admitted election in 1978; first African American elected to the Senate to the bar and began practice in Cedar Rapids; elected as by popular vote; lawyer; awarded the Presidential Medal a Republican to the Eighty-seventh and Eighty-eighth Con- of Freedom on June 23, 2004; is a resident of Miami, Fla. gresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1965); unsuccessful can- Bibliography: Brooke, Edward. The Challenge of Change: Crisis in Our didate in 1964 for reelection to the Eighty-ninth Congress; Two-Party System. Boston: Little Brown, 1966; Cutler, John Henry. Ed unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Brooke: Biography of a Senator. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1972. Biographies 713

BROOKE, Walker, a Senator from Mississippi; born at served from November 22, 1940, to January 3, 1949; unsuc- Page Brooke, near Winchester, Clarke County, Va., Decem- cessful candidate for reelection in 1948; chairman, Com- ber 25, 1813; attended the public schools in Richmond, Va., mittee on Rules and Administration (Eightieth Congress), and Georgetown, D.C.; graduated from the University of Joint Committee on the Library (Eightieth Congress), Joint Virginia at Charlottesville in 1835; studied law; admitted Committee on Inaugural Arrangements (Eightieth Con- to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice in Lexington, gress); resumed the practice of law in Chicago, Ill.; Repub- Miss.; member, State house of representatives 1848; mem- lican National Committeeman for Illinois 1952; died in Chi- ber, State senate 1850 and 1852; elected as a Whig to the cago, Ill., January 14, 1957; interment in Pleasant View United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the res- Cemetery, Kewanee, Ill. ignation of Henry S. Foote and served from February 18, 1852, to March 3, 1853; was not a candidate for reelection; BROOKS, David, a Representative from New York; born resumed the practice of law; moved to Vicksburg, Miss., in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1756; attended the public schools; in 1857 and continued the practice of law; delegate to the during the Revolutionary War entered the Continental Army State constitutional convention in 1861; became affiliated as a lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Battalion of the Flying with the Democratic Party in 1861; elected a member of Camp in 1776; was captured at Fort Washington, November the Provisional Confederate Congress from Mississippi in 16, 1776, and exchanged in January 1780; appointed assist- 1861 and served one year; appointed a member of the per- ant clothier general; studied law; was admitted to the bar manent military court of the Confederate States; died in and practiced; after the war settled in New York County, Vicksburg, Miss., February 18, 1869; interment in Vicksburg N.Y.; member of the State assembly 1787 and 1788; moved Cemetery. to Dutchess County, N.Y.; member of the State assembly 1794-1796 and 1810; judge of Dutchess County, 1795-1807; BROOKHART, Smith Wildman, a Senator from Iowa; elected as a Federalist to the Fifth Congress (March 4, 1797- born near Arbela, Scotland County, Mo., February 2, 1869; March 3, 1799); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1798 attended the country schools in Missouri and Bloomfield, to the Sixth Congress and in 1800 to the Seventh Congress; Iowa: graduated from the Southern Iowa Normal and Sci- appointed commissioner to negotiate a treaty with the Sen- entific Institute at Bloomfield in 1889; taught school for eca Indians; clerk of Dutchess County, June 5, 1807, to five years at Keosauqua; studied law; admitted to the bar January 25, 1809 and from February 9, 1810, to February in 1892 and commenced practice in Washington, Iowa; attor- 14, 1811, and again from February 23, 1813, to February ney of Washington County 1895-1901; during the Spanish- 13, 1815; appointed an officer in the United States Customs American War served as second lieutenant; resumed the Service; an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati; practice of law and also engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., August 30, chairman of the Republican State Convention in 1912; major 1838; interment probably in the Old Rural Cemetery. and lieutenant colonel during the First World War; president of the National Rifle Association 1921-1925; elected as a BROOKS, Edward Schroeder, a Representative from Progressive Republican to the United States Senate to fill Pennsylvania; born in York, Pa., June 14, 1867; attended the vacancy caused by the resignation of William S. Kenyon the public schools, York County Academy, York, Pa., and and served from November 7, 1922, to March 3, 1925; pre- York (Pa.) Collegiate Institute; engaged as a banker, manu- sented credentials as a Republican Senator-elect for the term facturer of steel forgings, and as a contractor; member of commencing March 4, 1925, and served until April 12, 1926, the city council 1897-1902; treasurer of York County 1903- when he was succeeded by Daniel F. Steck, who contested 1905; member of the Republican State committee in 1917 his election; again elected as a Republican in 1926 and and 1918; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and served from March 4, 1927, to March 3, 1933; unsuccessful Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); candidate for renomination in 1932 and for election as an was not a candidate for renomination in 1922; acting post- independent candidate; foreign-trade advisor in the Agricul- master of York, Pa., from September 30, 1925, until Feb- tural Adjustment Administration 1933-1935; unsuccessful ruary 23, 1926, and postmaster 1926-1931; engaged in the candidate for the Republican senatorial nomination in 1936; clothing business from 1937 until his retirement; died in practiced law in Washington, D.C., until 1943;, died in a York, Pa., July 12, 1957; interment in Prospect Hill Ceme- veterans’ hospital in Whipple, Ariz., November 15, 1944; tery. interment in Elm Grove Cemetery, Washington, Iowa. BROOKS, Edwin Bruce (cousin of Edmund Howard Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- ography; McDaniel, George William. Smith Wildman Brookhart: Iowa’s Hinshaw), a Representative from Illinois; born in Newton, Renegade Republican. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1995; Neprash, Jasper County, Ill., September 20, 1868; attended the public Jerry. The Brookhart Campaigns in Iowa 1920-1926: A Study in the Moti- schools, and was graduated from Valparaiso (Ind.) Univer- vation of Political Attitudes. 1932. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1968. sity in 1892; superintendent of schools at Newman 1894- 1897, at Newton 1897-1903, at Greenville 1903-1905, and BROOKS, Charles Wayland, a Senator from Illinois; at Paris 1905-1912; engaged in banking at Newton, Ill., born in West Bureau, Ill., March 8, 1897; attended the pub- 1912-1914; county superintendent of schools of Jasper Coun- lic schools at Wheaton, Ill., the University of Illinois at ty 1914-1918; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Urbana, and Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill.; during and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, the First World War served as a first lieutenant in the 1923); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the United States Marines 1917-1919; wounded several times; Sixty-eighth Congress; superintendent of charities for the graduated from the law department of Northwestern Univer- State of Illinois in 1924-1930; assistant attorney general sity in 1926; admitted to the bar the same year and com- 1930-1932; died in Newton, Ill., September 18, 1933; inter- menced practice in Chicago, Ill.; instructor of law at North- ment in River Side Cemetery. western University in 1926 and 1927; assistant State’s attor- ney 1926-1932; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Gov- BROOKS, Franklin Eli, a Representative from Colorado; ernor in 1936; elected on November 5, 1940, as a Republican born in Sturbridge, Worcester County, Mass., November 19, to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by 1860; attended the public schools; was graduated from the death of James Hamilton Lewis; reelected in 1942, and Southbridge High School in 1879 and from Brown Univer- 714 Biographical Directory

sity, Providence, R.I., in 1883; taught school for several schools; attended the academy at Monmouth, Maine; taught years; attended the law school of Boston University in 1887 school at sixteen years of age in Lewiston; was graduated and 1888; was admitted to the bar in 1888 and commenced from Waterville (Maine) College in 1831; studied law and practice in Boston, Mass.; moved to Colorado Springs, El also edited the Portland Advertiser, and in 1832 was its Paso County, Colo., in 1891, where he continued the practice Washington correspondent; member of the State house of of law; delegate to the Republican State conventions in 1900 representatives in 1835; unsuccessful candidate for election and 1907, serving as chairman the latter year; elected as in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress; moved to New York a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses City in 1836 and established the New York Daily Express, (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1907); was not a candidate for of which he was editor in chief the remainder of his life; renomination in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress; resumed the served in the State assembly in 1847; elected as a Whig practice of law in Colorado Springs, Colo., but devoted him- to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, self principally to land development, being president of the 1849-March 3, 1853); unsuccessful candidate for reelection Costilla Estates Development Company; appointed a mem- in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress; resumed his editorial ber of the State board of agriculture and trustee of the pursuits; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Con- State agricultural college, Fort Collins, Colo., in 1907; trust- gress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); presented credentials ee of Brown University; died February 7, 1916, in St. Augus- as a Member-elect to the Thirty-ninth Congress and served tine, Fla.; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado from March 4, 1865, to April 7, 1866, when he was suc- Springs, Colo. ceeded by William E. Dodge, who contested the election; elected to the Fortieth and to the three succeeding Con- BROOKS, George Merrick, a Representative from Mas- gresses and served from March 4, 1867, until his death; sachusetts; born in Concord, Mass., July 26, 1824; attended censured by the House of Representatives on February 27, an academy in Concord and a boarding school at Waltham; 1873, for attempted bribery in connection with the Cre´dit was graduated from Harvard University in 1844; studied Mobilier scandal; member of the State constitutional conven- law; was admitted to the bar in 1847 and commenced prac- tion in 1867; appointed a Government director of the Union tice in Concord; member of the State house of representa- Pacific Railroad in October 1867; died in Washington, D.C., tives in 1858; served in the State senate in 1859; elected April 30, 1873; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress to fill the va- N.Y. cancy caused by the resignation of George S. Boutwell; re- elected to the Forty-second Congress and served from No- BROOKS, Joshua Twing, a Representative from Penn- vember 2, 1869, to May 13, 1872, when he resigned, having sylvania; born in Edgeworth (now Sewickley), Allegheny been appointed to a judicial position; judge of probate for County, Pa., February 27, 1884; attended the public schools Middlesex County and served until his death in Concord, and was graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School of Mass., September 22, 1893; interment in Sleepy Hollow Yale University in 1908; engaged in the steel industry; dur- Cemetery. ing the First World War served in the Quartermaster Divi- sion in Washington, D.C., purchasing steel products for the BROOKS, Jack Bascom, a Representative from Texas; Army; returned to Sewickley, Pa., and continued in the steel born in Crowley, Acadia Parish, La., December 18, 1922; industry; later established his own business, being a dis- moved with his family to Beaumont, Tex., in 1927; attended tributor of railway supplies and steel products; elected as public schools and Lamar Junior College, Beaumont, Tex., a Democrat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Con- 1939-1941; B. J., University of Texas at Austin, 1943; en- gresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1937); unsuccessful can- listed as a private in the United States Marine Corps No- didate for renomination in 1936; member of the State Liquor vember 7, 1942, serving overseas twenty-three and one-half Board at Harrisburg, Pa., 1937-1939; assistant director of months on Guadalcanal, Guam, Okinawa, and in North aviation for Allegheny County, Pa., 1940-1948; manager of China, and discharged as a first lieutenant April 23, 1946; Allegheny County Airport, 1949-1956; died in Sewickley, Pa., colonel in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, 1946- February 7, 1956; interment in Sewickley Cemetery. 1972; member of State house of representatives 1946-1950; graduated from the law school of the University of Texas BROOKS, Micah, a Representative from New York; born in 1949; was admitted to the bar the same year and com- in Brooksvale, near Cheshire, Conn., May 14, 1775; received menced the practice of law in Beaumont, Tex.; owns and his early education from his father; a pioneer and one of operates a farm; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third the earliest surveyors of western New York; justice of the and to the twenty succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953- peace in 1806; member of the State assembly in 1808 and January 3, 1995); one of the managers appointed by the 1809; colonel on the frontier and at Fort Erie 1812-1814; House of Representatives in 1988 to conduct the impeach- major general of the New York State Infantry 1828-1830; ment proceedings against Alcee Lamar Hastings, judge of elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March the United States District Court for the Southern District 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); engaged in agricultural pursuits; of Florida; one of the managers appointed by the House delegate from Ontario County to the State constitutional of Representatives in 1989 to conduct the impeachment pro- convention in 1821; presidential elector on the Adams ticket ceedings against Walter L. Nixon, judge of the United States in 1824; died in Fillmore, Allegany County, N.Y., on July District Court for the District Court of Mississippi; unsuc- 7, 1857; interment in Nunda Cemetery, Nunda, Livingston cessful candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fourth County, N.Y. Congress; chairman, Joint Committee on Congressional Op- erations (Ninety-second and Ninety-fourth Congresses), BROOKS, Overton (nephew of John Holmes Overton), Committee on Government Operations (Ninety-fourth a Representative from Louisiana; born near Baton Rouge, through One Hundredth Congresses), Committee on the Ju- East Baton Rouge Parish, La., December 21, 1897; attended diciary (One Hundred First through One Hundred Third the public schools; during the First World War served over- Congresses). seas as an enlisted man in the Sixth Field Artillery, First Division, Regular Army, in 1918 and 1919; was graduated BROOKS, James, a Representative from New York; born from the law department of Louisiana State University at in Portland, Maine, November 10, 1810; attended the public Baton Rouge in 1923; was admitted to the bar the same Biographies 715

year and commenced practice in Shreveport, La.; served as in 1776; was graduated from Princeton College in 1794; United States Commissioner 1925-1935; elected as a Demo- studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1801 and practiced crat to the Seventy-fifth and to the twelve succeeding Con- in New Castle and Wilmington, Del., and Baltimore, Md.; gresses and served from January 3, 1937, until his death elected as a Federalist to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses in Bethesda, Md., September 16, 1961; chairman, Committee and served from March 4, 1805, until his resignation in on Science and Astronautics (Eighty-sixth and Eighty-sev- 1807, before the assembling of the Tenth Congress; moved enth Congresses); interment in Forest Hills Cemetery, to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1819 and resumed the practice of Shreveport, La. law; member of the Pennsylvania house of representatives in 1824; died in Philadelphia, Pa., January 15, 1850; inter- BROOKS, Preston Smith, a Representative from South ment in St. Mary’s Churchyard, Hamilton Village (now a Carolina; born in Edgefield District, S.C., August 5, 1819; part of Philadelphia), Pa. attended the common schools and was graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at BROOMALL, John Martin, a Representative from Penn- Columbia in 1839; studied law; was admitted to the bar sylvania; born in Upper Chichester Township, Delaware in 1845 and commenced practice in Edgefield, S.C.; member County, Pa., January 19, 1816; attended private schools; of the State house of representatives in 1844; served in taught school for several years; studied law; was admitted the Mexican War as captain in the Palmetto Regiment of to the bar in 1840 and commenced practice in Chester, Pa.; South Carolina Volunteers; elected as a Democrat to the member of the State house of representatives in 1851 and Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses and served from 1852; served on the State revenue board in 1854; unsuccess- March 4, 1853, until July 15, 1856, when he resigned even ful candidate for election in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Con- though the attempt to expel him for his assault upon gress and in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress; delegate on May 22, 1856, had failed through lack to the Republican National Convention in 1860; moved to of the necessary two-thirds vote; chairman, Committee on Media in 1860 and continued the practice of law; served Expenditures in the Department of State (Thirty-fourth Con- in the Union Army as captain of Company C, Twenty-ninth gress); reelected to the Thirty-fourth Congress to fill the Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Men, from June 18 to vacancy caused by his own resignation and served from Au- August 1, 1863; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth, gust 1, 1856, until his death in Washington, D.C., January Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 27, 1857; had been reelected to the Thirty-fifth Congress; 3, 1869); chairman, Committee on Accounts (Fortieth Con- interment in Willow Brook Cemetery, Edgefield, S.C. gress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1868; re- Bibliography: Gienapp, W.E. ‘‘Crime Against Sumner: The Caning of sumed the practice of law; delegate to the State constitu- Charles Sumner and the Rise of the Republican Party.’’ Civil War History tional convention in 1874; appointed judge of the courts 25 (September 1979): 218-45; Mathis, Robert Neil. ‘‘Preston Smith Brooks: of Delaware County in March 1874 and served until January The Man and His Image.’’ South Carolina Historical Magazine 79 (October 1978): 296-310. 1875, being an unsuccessful candidate for election to succeed himself; again resumed the practice of law in Media, Dela- BROOKSHIRE, Elijah Voorhees, a Representative from ware County, Pa.; died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 3, 1894; Indiana; born near Ladoga, Montgomery County, Ind., Au- interment in Media Cemetery, Media, Pa. gust 15, 1856; attended the common schools, and was grad- uated from Central Indiana Normal College at Ladoga in BROOMFIELD, William S., a Representative from August 1878; taught in the common schools of Montgomery Michigan; born in Royal Oak, Oakland County, Mich., April County, Ind. 1879-1882; also engaged in agricultural pur- 28, 1922; graduated from high school in 1940; attended suits; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1883 and Michigan State College at East Lansing; during the Second commenced practice in Crawfordsville the same year; elected World War served in the United States Army Air Corps; as a Democrat to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty- engaged in the real-estate and property-management busi- third Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1895); unsuccess- ness; member of the State house of representatives 1949- ful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Con- 1954, serving as speaker pro tempore in 1953; served in gress; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., the State senate in 1955 and 1956; elected as a Republican and was admitted to practice before the United States Su- to the Eighty-fifth and to the seventeen succeeding Con- preme Court in 1894; moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1925, gresses (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1993); was not a can- and to Seattle, Wash., in 1935, having retired from active didate for renomination in 1992 to the One Hundred Third law practice in 1925; died in Seattle, Wash., April 14, 1936; Congress; is a resident of Lake Orion, Mich. interment in Harshbarger Cemetery, near Ladoga, Mont- gomery County, Ind. BROPHY, John Charles, a Representative from Wis- consin; born in Eagle, Walworth County, Wis., October 8, BROOM, Jacob (son of James Madison Broom), a Rep- 1901; attended the public and parochial schools of Mil- resentative from Pennsylvania; born in Baltimore, Md., July waukee, Wis.; was graduated from St. Patrick’s and Mar- 25, 1808; received a classical education; moved to Philadel- quette Academy; enlisted in the United States Navy during phia, Pa., with his parents in 1819; studied law; was admit- the First World War and served as a seaman from August ted to the bar in 1832 and commenced practice in Philadel- 1919 until honorably discharged in May 1921; worked as phia, Pa.; appointed deputy auditor of the State in 1840; a mechanic 1922-1938; alderman of the city of Milwaukee clerk of the Philadelphia orphans’ court 1848-1852; nomi- from April 1939 to December 1946; unsuccessful candidate nated by the Native American Party in 1852 for President for election in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; elected of the United States; elected as a candidate of the American as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress (January 3, 1947- Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 3, 1857); chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Pensions 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress and for election in 1950 (Thirty-fourth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomi- to the Eighty-second Congress; engaged in sales and public nation in 1856 and for election to the Thirty-sixth Congress relations until retirement in 1969; resided in Milwaukee, in 1858; died in Washington, D.C., November 28, 1864; in- Wis., where he died December 26, 1976; interment in Mount terment in Congressional Cemetery. Olivet Cemetery. BROOM, James Madison (father of Jacob Broom), a BROSIUS, Marriott, a Representative from Pennsyl- Representative from Delaware; born near Wilmington, Del., vania; born in Colerain Township, Lancaster County, Pa., 716 Biographical Directory

March 7, 1843; attended the common schools and Thomas schools and was graduated from the Louisiana State Univer- Baker’s Academy in Colerain Township; enlisted as a private sity and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton in Company K, Ninety-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Vol- Rouge in 1896; taught in the public schools of Iberia and unteers, in October 1861, for three years, and reenlisted St. Martin Parishes 1896-1898; at the outbreak of the Span- May 20, 1864; honorably discharged December 28, 1864, ish-American War volunteered for service and served as a and on February 28, 1865, was commissioned a second lieu- captain in Cuba 1898-1899; accompanied the Taft Commis- tenant for bravery on the field of battle; after the war at- sion to the Philippine Islands in 1899 and served as an tended the State normal school at Millersville and the law assistant secretary; returned to the United States in 1900; department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; was graduated from the law department of Tulane Univer- was admitted to the bar in 1868 and commenced practice sity, New Orleans, La., in 1901; admitted to the bar the in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa.; elected as a Republican same year, and commenced practice in New Iberia, La.; pros- to the Fifty-first and to the six succeeding Congresses and ecuting attorney for the nineteenth district of Louisiana 1903-1908; unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor served from March 4, 1889, until his death in Lancaster, in 1916; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate Pa., March 16, 1901; chairman, Committee on Reform in in 1920; reelected in 1926 and served from March 4, 1921, the Civil Service (Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses), to March 3, 1933; unsuccessful candidate for renomination Committee on Banking and Currency (Fifty-sixth Congress); in 1932; resumed the practice of law in New Iberia, La., interment in Greenwood Cemetery. where he died on November 19, 1934; interment in St. Pe- ters Cemetery. BROTZMAN, Donald Glenn, a Representative from Col- Bibliography: Wakefield, Ann. ‘‘The Broussard Papers of the University orado; born on a farm in Logan County, Colo., near Sterling, of Southwestern Louisiana: New Light on Louisiana Progressivism.’’ Lou- Colo., June 28, 1922; educated in Logan County schools; isiana History 31 (Summer 1990): 293-300. graduated from University Colorado School of Business at Boulder, 1949; graduated from the University of Colorado BROUSSARD, Robert Foligny (brother of Edwin Sidney School of Law, 1949; admitted to the bar in 1950 and began Broussard), a Representative and a Senator from Louisiana; practice in Boulder, Colo.; served as a first lieutenant with born on the ‘Mary Louise’ plantation, near New Iberia, Ibe- the Eighty-first Infantry Division in the South Pacific, 1945- ria Parish, La., August 17, 1864; attended public and private 1946; member of the Colorado state house of representatives, schools; attended Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 1952-1954; member of the Colorado state senate, 1954-1956; 1879-1882; night inspector of customs in New Orleans 1885- Republican caucus leader in 1956; Republican gubernatorial 1888, when he was appointed assistant weigher and statisti- nominee in 1954 and 1956; appointed United States attorney cian 1888-1889; studied law at Tulane University, New Orle- ans, La., graduating in 1889; admitted to the bar the same for Colorado by President Eisenhower and served from 1959- year and commenced practice in New Iberia; elected pros- 1961; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth Congress ecuting attorney of the nineteenth judicial district 1892- (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1965); unsuccessful nominee 1897; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; elected to the Nine- eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1915); tieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department 1967-January 3, 1975); unsuccessful candidate for reelection of Justice (Sixty-third Congress); did not seek renomination to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974; Assistant Secretary in 1914, having become a candidate for Senator; elected of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, 1975-1977; as a Democrat in 1914 to the United States Senate and president of Rubber Manufacturers Association and National served from March 4, 1915, until his death in New Iberia, Rubber Shippers Association; chairman, Industry Safety La., April 12, 1918; chairman, Committee on National Banks Council, Washington, D.C.; died on September 15, 2004, in (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses); interment in the Alexandria, Va. Catholic Cemetery. Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Robert F. BROUGHTON, Joseph Melville, a Senator from North Broussard. 65th Cong., 3rd sess., 1918-1919. Washington, D.C.: Govern- Carolina; born in Raleigh, Wake County, N.C., November ment Printing Office, 1919; Wakefield, Ann. ‘‘The Broussard Papers of the 17, 1888; attended the public schools; graduated from Hugh University of Southwestern Louisiana: New Light on Louisiana Progres- Morson Academy in 1906 and Wake Forest (N.C.) College sivism.’’ Louisiana History 31 (Summer 1990): 293-300. in 1910; taught school in Bunn, N.C. 1910-1912; reporter BROWDER, John Glen, a Representative from Alabama; on a newspaper in Winston-Salem, N.C., in 1912; attended born in Sumter, Sumter County, S.C., January 15, 1943; Harvard University Law School in 1912 and 1913; admitted graduated, Edmunds High School, Sumter, S.C., 1961; B.A., to the bar in 1914 and commenced practice in Raleigh, N.C., Presbyterian College, Clinton, S.C., 1965; M.A., Emory Uni- the same year; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; mem- versity, Atlanta, Ga., 1971; Ph.D., Emory University, At- ber, State senate 1927-1929; Governor of North Carolina lanta, Ga., 1971; sportswriter, Atlanta Journal, 1966; inves- 1941-1945; served as a member of the board of trustees tigator, United States Civil Service Commission, Atlanta, of Wake Forest College and of the University of North Caro- 1966-1968; professor of political science, Jacksonville State lina; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate University, Alabama, 1971-1987; president, Data Associates, on November 2, 1948, to fill the vacancy in the term ending Anniston, Alabama, 1978-1987; Alabama state representa- January 3, 1949, caused by the death of Josiah W. Bailey tive, 1982-1986; secretary of state, Alabama, 1987-1989; and at the same time was elected for the full term com- elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred First Congress, mencing January 3, 1949, and served from December 31, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death 1948, until his death in Washington, D.C., March 6, 1949; of United States Representative William F. Nichols, and interment in Montlawn Memorial Park, Raleigh, N.C. reelected to the three succeeding Congresses (April 4, 1989- Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Joseph Broughton. January 3, 1997); was not a candidate for reelection to the 81st Cong., 1st sess., 1949. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, United States House of Representatives in 1996, but was 1950. an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United States Senate. BROUSSARD, Edwin Sidney (brother of Robert Foligny Broussard), a Senator from Louisiana; born near Loreauville, BROWER, John Morehead, a Representative from in Iberia Parish, La., December 4, 1874; attended the public North Carolina; born in Greensboro, Guilford County, N.C., Biographies 717

July 19, 1845; moved to Surry County, N.C., with his par- BROWN, Anson, a Representative from New York; born ents, who settled in Mount Airy in 1845; educated by private in Charlton, Saratoga County, N.Y., in 1800; attended the tutors and attended the Mount Airy Male Academy; engaged public schools, and was graduated from Union College, Sche- in agricultural pursuits, the raising and processing of to- nectady, N.Y., in 1819; studied law; was admitted to the bacco, and mercantile pursuits; delegate to all Republican bar and commenced practice in Ballston Spa; one of the State conventions from 1872 to 1896; member of the State first directors of the Ballston Spa State Bank (later the senate 1876-1878; elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth Ballston Spa National Bank), which was organized in 1830; and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress and served chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office from March 4, 1839, until his death in Ballston Spa, N.Y., Department (Fifty-first Congress); unsuccessful candidate for June 14, 1840; interment in the cemetery of the Ballston reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; member of Spa Cemetery Association. the State house of representatives 1896-1898; resumed his former agricultural and business pursuits; moved to Okla- BROWN, Arthur, a Senator from Utah; born near Kala- homa and settled in Boswell, Choctaw County, in 1907 and mazoo, Kalamazoo County, Mich., March 8, 1843; attended engaged in the manufacture of lumber, agricultural pursuits, the common schools and graduated from Antioch College, and stock raising; died in Paris, Lamar County, Tex., August Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1862; pursued graduate work at 5, 1913; interment in Oakdale Cemetery, Mount Airy, N.C. the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1864; BROWN, Aaron Venable, a Representative from Ten- admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Kalamazoo; nessee; born in Brunswick County, Va., August 15, 1795; moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1879; upon the admission attended Westrayville Academy, North Carolina, and was of Utah as a State into the Union was elected as a Repub- graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel lican to the United States Senate and served from January Hill in 1814; moved to Nashville, Tenn., in 1815; studied 22, 1896, until March 3, 1897; was not a candidate for law; was admitted to the bar in 1817 and commenced prac- renomination; resumed the practice of law in Salt Lake City; tice in Nashville; moved to Giles County in 1818 and contin- shot in Washington, D.C. on December 8, 1906, by a woman ued the practice of law; became the partner of James K. who claimed to be the mother of his children, and died Polk; served in the State senate 1821-1825; member of the on December 12; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt State house of representatives 1831-1833; elected as a Demo- Lake City, Utah. crat to the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, and Twenty- Bibliography: Thatcher, Linda. ‘‘The ‘Gentile Polygamist’: Arthur eighth Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1845); chairman, Brown, Ex-Senator from Utah.’’ Utah Historical Quarterly 52 (Summer Committee on Territories (Twenty-eighth Congress); was not 1984): 231-45. a candidate for reelection in 1844; Governor of Tennessee BROWN, Bedford, a Senator from North Carolina; born 1845-1847; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1852; appointed in Caswell County, N.C., near Greensboro, June 6, 1795; Postmaster General in the Cabinet of President Buchanan graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel on March 6, 1857, and served until his death in Washington, Hill in 1813; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1815 but D.C., on March 8, 1859; interment in Mount Olivet Ceme- did not practice; planter; elected to the house of commons tery, Nashville, Tenn. of North Carolina in 1815, 1816, 1817, and 1823; member, State senate 1828-1829; elected in 1829 as a Jacksonian BROWN, Albert Gallatin, a Representative and a Sen- (later Democrat) to the United States Senate to fill the ator from Mississippi; born in Chester District, S.C., May vacancy caused by the resignation of John Branch; reelected 31, 1813; moved with his parents to Copiah County, Miss., in 1835 and served from December 9, 1829, until November in 1823; attended Mississippi College, Clinton, Miss., and 16, 1840, when he resigned, because he would not obey Jefferson College, Washington, Miss.; studied law; admitted the instructions of the general assembly of North Carolina; to the bar in 1833 and commenced practice in Gallatin, chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Twenty-third and Miss.; member, State house of representatives 1835-1839; Twenty-fourth Congresses), Committee on Revolutionary elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March Claims (Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses), Com- 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); declined to be a candidate for re- mittee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Twen- nomination in 1840; judge of the circuit superior court 1842- ty-fifth Congress); again elected to the State senate in 1842; 1843; Governor of Mississippi 1844-1848; elected to the Thir- unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Sen- tieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, ate in 1842; moved to Missouri in 1843; subsequently moved 1847-March 3, 1853); chairman, Committee on the District to Virginia; returned to North Carolina and engaged in agri- of Columbia (Thirty-first Congress); was not a candidate cultural pursuits; member, State senate 1858-1860; delegate for reelection in 1852; elected to the United States Senate to the reconstruction convention in 1865; again elected to in 1854 to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March the State senate in 1868, but was not permitted to take 4, 1853; reelected in 1859 and served from January 7, 1854, his seat; died at ‘‘Rose Hill,’’ Caswell County, N.C., near until January 12, 1861, when he withdrew; chairman, Com- Greensboro, December 6, 1870; interment in the family cem- mittee on the District of Columbia (Thirty-fourth through etery at ‘Rose Hill.’ Thirty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Enrolled Bills (Thir- Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Jones, Houston. Bed- ty-sixth Congress); during the Civil War entered the Confed- ford Brown: States Rights Unionist. Carrolton, Ga.: West Georgia College, erate Army as a captain; elected a member of the Confed- 1955. erate Senate in 1862 and served in the First and Second BROWN, Benjamin (nephew of John Brown), a Rep- Confederate Congresses; engaged in agricultural pursuits; resentative from Massachusetts; born in Swansea, Mass., died near Terry, Hinds County, Miss., June 12, 1880; inter- September 23, 1756; pursued academic studies; studied med- ment in Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Miss. Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- icine and commenced practice in Waldoboro, Maine (until ography; McCutchen, Samuel. ‘‘The Political Career of Albert Gallatin 1820 a district of Massachusetts); surgeon in 1778 on the Brown.’’ Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1930; Ranck, James B. American Boston, commanded by Commodore Tucker, Albert Gallatin Brown: Radical Southern Nationalist. New York: Appleton- which conveyed John Adams as American commissioner to Century Company, 1937. France; with Commander Tucker, was captured in 1781 on 718 Biographical Directory

the American warship Thorne at the mouth of the St. Law- schools and Greenfield Academy, and was graduated from rence River and imprisoned on Prince Edward Island; es- Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1854; went south and, caped in an open boat and reached Boston, Mass.; member while serving as tutor at Baton Rouge, La., studied law; of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1809, 1811, was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice 1812, and again in 1819; elected as a Federalist to the in Chillicothe, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Ross County Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); re- in 1859 and 1860; enlisted as a private in Company B, sumed the practice of medicine; died in Waldoboro, Lincoln Sixty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, September 2, 1861, County, Maine, September 17, 1831; interment in Waldoboro and was commissioned captain October 23, 1861; promoted Cemetery. through the ranks to colonel June 6, 1865, and brevetted BROWN, Benjamin Gratz (grandson of John Brown of brigadier general March 13, 1865; mustered out July 8, Virginia and Kentucky [1757-1837]), a Senator from Mis- 1865; resumed the practice of law in Chillicothe, Ross Coun- souri; born in Lexington, Ky., May 28, 1826; completed pre- ty, Ohio; postmaster of Chillicothe 1866-1872; commissioned paratory studies; graduated from Transylvania University, pension agent at Cincinnati in 1872, which position he held Lexington, Ky., in 1845 and from Yale College in 1847; until President Hayes’ administration; elected as a Repub- studied law in Louisville, Ky.; admitted to the bar in 1849 lican to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, and commenced practice in St. Louis, Mo.; member, State 1885-March 3, 1889); was not a candidate for renomination house of representatives 1852-1858; one of the founders of in 1888; resumed the practice of law; member of the State the Missouri Democrat and its chief editor in 1854; unsuc- senate in 1900 and 1901; died at College Hill, Hamilton cessful candidate for election in 1857 as Governor of Mis- County, Ohio, on May 22, 1904; interment in Spring Grove souri; took an active part in preventing the secession of Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. Missouri in 1861; during the Civil War enlisted in the Union Army; raised a regiment and commanded it; elected as an BROWN, Charles Harrison, a Representative from Mis- Unconditional Unionist to the United States Senate to fill souri; born in Coweta, Wagoner County, Okla., October 22, the vacancy caused by the expulsion of Waldo P. Johnson 1920; attended the public schools in Humansville and Re- and served from November 13, 1863, to March 3, 1867; public, Mo., and high school in Springfield, Mo.; attended chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds Drury College, Springfield, Mo., in 1937, 1938, and 1940, (Thirty-ninth Congress), Committee to Audit and Control and George Washington University, Washington, D.C., in the Contingent Expense (Thirty-ninth Congress); Governor 1939; program director for a radio station in Springfield, of Missouri 1871; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Vice Mo., in 1937 and 1938; radio publicity director for Missouri President of the United States on the ticket with Horace Conservation Commission in 1940; account executive for an Greeley in 1872; resumed the practice of law; died in Kirk- advertising company in St. Louis, Mo., 1943-1945; founder wood, near St. Louis, Mo., December 13, 1885; interment and president of Brown Radio-TV Productions, Inc., Spring- in Oak Hill Cemetery, Kirkwood, Mo. field, Mo.; partner, Brown Brothers Advertising Agency, Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- Nashville, St. Louis, and Springfield; delegate to Democratic ography; Peterson, Norma L. Freedom and Franchise: The Political Career State and National Conventions in 1956, 1960, and 1964; of B. Gratz Brown. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1968. elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Congresses (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1961); unsuccessful BROWN, Charles, a Representative from Pennsylvania; candidate for reelection in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Con- born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 23, 1797; attended the gress; public relations consultant in Washington, D.C., and public schools; in early boyhood moved with his father to Los Angeles; senior vice president of an oil refining company Cumberland County, N.J., and resided near Bridgeton; offi- in Los Angeles, 1973-1979; is a resident of Incline Village, cer in the State militia 1817-1819; town clerk of Dover Nev. Township 1819; taught school at Dividing Creek in 1820 and 1821; returned to Philadelphia in 1823 and engaged BROWN, Clarence J. (father of Clarence J. Brown, Jr.), in the cordwood business; appointed a director of the Phila- a Representative from Ohio; born in Blanchester, Clinton delphia public schools in 1828; member of the Philadelphia County, Ohio, July 14, 1893; attended the Blanchester public City Council in 1830 and 1831; served in the State house schools and the law school of Washington and Lee Univer- of representatives 1830-1833; delegate to the convention to sity, Lexington, Va., 1913-1915; State statistician in 1915 revise the constitution of Pennsylvania 1834-1838; served and 1916; engaged in newspaper work at Blanchester, Ohio, in the State senate 1838-1841; elected as a Democrat to in 1917 and was publisher of several country newspapers; the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, president of the Brown Publishing Co., Blanchester, Ohio; 1843); was not a candidate for reelection in 1842; president also owned and operated several large farms; Lieutenant of the State convention to nominate candidates for the board of canal commissioners in 1843; member of the board of Governor of Ohio 1919-1923; secretary of state of Ohio 1927- commissioners, Northern Liberties Township, in 1843; elect- 1933; Republican nominee for Governor in 1934; delegate ed to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); to the Republican National Conventions in 1936, 1940, 1944, was not a candidate for reelection in 1848; member of the and 1948; member of the Republican National Committee board of inspectors of the Eastern State Penitentiary 1851- since 1944; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth 1853; collector of customs at the port of Philadelphia 1853- and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses and served from 1857; member of the board of guardians of the poor of Phila- January 3, 1939, until his death in Washington, D.C., Au- delphia in 1860; moved to Dover, Del., in 1861 and engaged gust 23, 1965; chairman, Select Committee on Newsprint in agricultural pursuits; town commissioner of Dover in 1864 (Eightieth Congress); interment in I.O.O.F. Cemetery, and 1865; delegate to the Union National Convention at Blanchester, Ohio. Philadelphia in 1866; president of the board of trustees of the Dover public schools 1871-1878; died at Dover, Del., BROWN, Clarence J., Jr. (son of Clarence J. Brown), September 4, 1883; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery, a Representative from Ohio; born in Columbus, Ohio, June Philadelphia, Pa. 18, 1927; graduated from Western High School (Duke Elling- ton) Washington, D.C., 1944; B.A., Duke University, Dur- BROWN, Charles Elwood, a Representative from Ohio; ham, N.C., 1947; MBA., Harvard Business School, Cam- born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 4, 1834; attended the common bridge, Mass., 1949; United States Navy, 1944-1946 (V-12 Biographies 719

Program), and 1950-1953 (Korean conflict); journalist, Brown caused by the death of William A. Trimble, and served from Publishing Co., 1949-1965, and serving as president, 1965- January 3, 1822, to March 3, 1825; unsuccessful candidate 1976, and chairman of the board, 1976-2002; co-owner of for reelection in 1825; canal commissioner of Ohio 1825- Franklin, Ohio, Chronicle, 1953-1959; farm owner; radio sta- 1830; Charge d’Affaires to Brazil 1830-1834; commissioner tion general manager, Urbana, Ohio, 1965; delegate, Repub- of the General Land Office in Washington 1835-1836; moved lican National Conventions, 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1984; to Rising Sun, Ohio County, Ind., 1836; member, Indiana elected as a Republican to the Eighty-ninth Congress, by house of representatives 1842; died in Indianapolis, Ind., special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death February 24, 1852; interment in Cedar Hedge Cemetery, of his father, United States Representative Clarence J. Rising Sun, Ind. Brown, and reelected to the eight succeeding Congresses Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- (November 2, 1965-January 3, 1983); was not a candidate ography. for reelection to the Ninety-eighth Congress in 1982, but BROWN, Foster Vincent (father of Joseph Edgar was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Ohio; Deputy Brown), a Representative from Tennessee; born near Sparta, Secretary of Commerce and Acting Secretary of Commerce, White County, Tenn., December 24, 1852; attended the com- 1983-1988; member, board of the Overseas Private Invest- mon schools; was graduated from Burritt College, Spencer, ment Corporation, 1988-1989; president and chief executive Van Buren County, Tenn., in 1871 and from the law depart- officer, Historical Society, 1992-1999. ment of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1873; BROWN, Corrine, a Representative from Florida; born was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Jasper, in Jacksonville, St. John County, Fla., November 11, 1946; Tenn., in 1874; delegate to the Republican National Conven- B.S., Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Talla- tions in 1884, 1896, 1900, and 1916; attorney general of the fourth judicial district 1886-1894; moved to Chattanooga, hassee, Fla., 1969; M.A., Florida Agricultural and Mechan- Tenn., in May 1890 and continued the practice of law; elect- ical University, Tallahassee, Fla., 1971; Ed.S., University ed as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., 1974; faculty, University of Flor- 1895-March 3, 1897); declined to be a candidate for renomi- ida, Edward Waters College, and Florida Community Col- nation in 1896; resumed the practice of law; appointed attor- lege, Jacksonville; member of the Florida state house of ney general of Puerto Rico on May 10, 1910, and served representatives, 1983-1993; elected as a Democrat to the until April 20, 1912, when he resigned; resumed the practice One Hundred Third and to the five succeeding Congresses of law in Chattanooga, Tenn., until his death there on March (January 3, 1993-present). 26, 1937; interment in Forest Hills Cemetery. BROWN, Elias, a Representative from Maryland; born BROWN, Fred Herbert, a Senator from New Hampshire; near Baltimore, Md., on May 9, 1793; attended the common born in Ossipee, Carroll County, N.H., April 12, 1879; at- schools; presidential elector on the ticket of Monroe and tended the public schools and Dow Academy, Franconia, Tompkins in 1820 and on the ticket of Adams and Rush N.H., Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., and Boston Uni- in 1828; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Con- versity School of Law; admitted to the bar in 1907 and gress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1831); member of the State commenced practice in Somersworth, N.H.; city solicitor house of representatives in 1834 and 1835; member of the 1910-1914; delegate to the State constitutional convention State senate 1836-1838; presidential elector on the ticket in 1912; mayor of Somersworth, N.H. 1914-1922; United of Harrison and Tyler in 1836; delegate to the State con- States attorney for the district of New Hampshire 1914- stitutional convention in 1836; died near Baltimore, Md., 1922; Governor of New Hampshire 1923-1924; member of July 7, 1857; interment in a private cemetery near the New Hampshire Public Service Commission 1925-1933; Eldersburg, Carroll County, Md. elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1933, to January 3, 1939; unsuccessful BROWN, Ernest S., a Senator from Nevada; born in candidate for reelection in 1938; appointed Comptroller Gen- Alturas, Modoc County, Calif., September 25, 1903; moved eral of the United States by President Franklin D. Roosevelt with his family to Reno, Nev. in 1906; attended the public in April 1939 and served until his resignation on June 19, schools; graduated from the University of Nevada at Reno 1940; served as a member of the United States Tariff Com- in 1926; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1927 and com- mission 1940-1941; retired from public and political activi- menced practice in Reno, Nev.; member, State assembly ties; died in Somersworth, N.H., February 3, 1955; interment 1933; district attorney of Washoe County 1935-1941, resign- in Ossipee Cemetery, Ossipee, N.H. ing in December 1941 to enter active service in the United States Army as a second lieutenant; commissioned a colonel BROWN, Garry Eldridge, a Representative from Michi- and discharged in December 1945; returned to Reno and gan; born in Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo County, Mich., August resumed the practice of law; appointed on October 1, 1954, 12, 1923; Kalamazoo College, B.A., 1951, and George Wash- as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the ington University Law School, LL.B., 1954; admitted to the vacancy caused by the death of Pat McCarran, and served bar in 1954 and commenced practice in Kalamazoo, Mich.; until December 1, 1954; was unsuccessful for election to commissioner of the United States District Court for the the vacancy; resumed the practice of law; died in Reno, western district of Michigan, 1957-1962; delegate to the Nev., July 23, 1965; interment in Masonic section of Moun- Michigan constitutional convention of 1961-1962; served two tain View Cemetery. terms in the Michigan State senate, 1962-1966; minority floor leader and chairman of the Republican senate policy BROWN, Ethan Allen, a Senator from Ohio; born in committee, served in the Twenty-fourth Infantry Division Darien, Conn., July 4, 1776; pursued academic studies; stud- as second lieutenant in Japan; elected as a Republican to ied law under Alexander Hamilton; admitted to the bar in the Ninetieth and to the five succeeding Congresses (Janu- 1802; moved to Cincinnati in 1804, where he began the ary 3, 1967-January 3, 1979); unsuccessful candidate for practice of law; associate judge of the supreme court of Ohio reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; resumed 1810-1818; Governor of Ohio 1818-1822; resigned on being the practice of law; was a resident of Washington, D.C., elected as a Democratic Republican (later Adams-Clay Re- until his death on August 27, 1998; interment in Schoolcraft, publican) to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy Michigan. 720 Biographical Directory

BROWN, George Edward, Jr., a Representative from Clay), a Senator from Louisiana; born near Staunton, Va., California; born in Holtville, Imperial County, Calif., March September 11, 1766; attended Washington College (now 6, 1920; graduated from Holtville Union High School, 1935; Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Va., and Wil- attended El Centro Junior College, 1938; graduated from liam and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.; studied law; ad- the University of California, Los Angeles, Calif., 1946; em- mitted to the bar and commenced practice in Frankfort, ployed by the city of Los Angleles, Calif., in personnel and Ky.; commanded a company of sharpshooters in an expedi- engineering for twelve years between 1940 and 1957; man- tion against the Indians in 1789; secretary to the Governor agement consultant, 1957-1962; United States Army, 1944- 1792; soon after the cession of the Territory of Louisiana 1946; mayor and city councilman of Monterey Park, Calif., moved to New Orleans and was appointed as secretary of 1954-1958; member of the California state assembly, 1959- the Territory in 1804; subsequently became United States 1962; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and to district attorney for the Territory; elected as a Democratic the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January Republican to the United States Senate on December 1, 3, 1971); not a candidate for reelection, but was an unsuc- 1812, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John cessful candidate for nomination to the United States Senate N. Destrehan, and served from February 5, 1813, to March in 1970; elected to the Ninety-third and to the thirteen 3, 1817; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; again elected succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-July 15, 1999); to the United States Senate in 1819, as an Adams-Clay chairman, Committee on Science, Space and Technology Republican, and served from March 4, 1819, until December (One Hundred Second and One Hundred Third Congresses); 10, 1823, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on For- died on July 15, 1999, in Bethesda, Md. eign Relations (Sixteenth Congress); appointed United States Minister to France 1823-1829; returned to the United BROWN, George Hanks (Hank), a Representative and States and settled in Philadelphia, Pa., where he died on a Senator from Colorado; born in Denver, Colo., February April 7, 1835. 12, 1940; attended the public schools; graduated, Menlo- Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- Atherton High School 1957; B.S., University of Colorado, ography; Padgett, James A., ed. ‘‘Letters of James Brown to , Boulder, Colo. 1961; J.D., University of Colorado 1969; M.L. 1804-1835.’’ Louisiana Historical Quarterly 24 (1941): 921-1177. (tax), George Washington University 1986; served in the United States Navy, lieutenant 1962-1966; admitted to the BROWN, James Sproat, a Representative from Wis- Colorado bar in 1969; vice president, Monfort of Colorado, consin; born in Hampden, Penobscot County, Maine, Feb- 1969-1980; served in the Colorado senate, 1972-1976; be- ruary 1, 1824; attended the public schools; moved to Cin- came Certified Public Accountant, 1988; elected as a Repub- cinnati, Ohio, in 1840; studied law; was admitted to the lican to the Ninety-seventh and to the four succeeding Con- bar in 1843 and commenced practice in Milwaukee, Wis., gresses (January 3, 1981-January 3, 1991); elected to the in 1844; elected prosecuting attorney for Milwaukee County United States Senate in 1990 and served from January 3, in 1846; attorney general of Wisconsin in 1848 and 1849; 1991 to January 3, 1997; not a candidate for reelection in mayor of Milwaukee in 1861; elected as a Democrat to the 1996; co-director, Center for Public Policy and Contemporary Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); un- Issues, University of Denver 1997-1998; president, Univer- successful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty- sity of Northern Colorado 1998-2002; president, Daniels ninth Congress; in 1865 went to Europe to recuperate his Fund 2002-. health; returned to the United States in 1873; resumed the practice of law in Milwaukee, Wis.; died on April 15, 1878, BROWN, George Houston, a Representative from New in Chicago, Ill.; interment in Forest Home Cemetery, Mil- Jersey; born in Lawrenceville, N.J., February 12, 1810; at- waukee, Wis. tended the common schools and Lawrenceville Academy and was graduated from Princeton College in 1828; teacher in BROWN, James W. (son-in-law of Thomas Marshall Lawrenceville Academy 1828-1830; studied law at Yale Col- Howe), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Pitts- lege for one year and also in a law office in Somerville, burgh, Pa., July 14, 1844; attended the common schools N.J.; was admitted to the bar in 1835 and commenced prac- of Allegheny County and also private schools; became inter- tice in Somerville; member of the State council 1842-1845; ested in the iron and steel industry and served as vice delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1844; president of the Crucible Steel Co.; also engaged in banking elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March and was trustee of the Dollar Savings Bank; elected as an 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); was not a candidate for renomina- Independent Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March tion in 1852; resumed the practice of law; associate justice 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); declined to be a candidate for re- of the supreme court of New Jersey from 1861 until his nomination in 1904; resumed his former business pursuits death in Somerville, Somerset County, N.J., August 1, 1865; and served as president of the Colonial Steel Co.; died at interment in the Old Cemetery. Point Mouille, Mich., on October 23, 1909; interment in Alle- gheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa. BROWN, Henry Edward, Jr., a Representative from South Carolina; born in Bishopville, Lee County, S.C., De- BROWN, Jason Brevoort, a Representative from Indi- cember 20, 1935; graduated from Berkeley High School, ana; born in Dillsboro, Dearborn County, Ind., February 26, Moncks Corner, S.C., 1953; attended Baptist College (now 1839; attended the common schools and Wilmington Acad- The Citadel), Charleston, S.C.; South Carolina National emy, Dearborn County, Ind.; studied law; was admitted to Guard, 1953-1962; business executive; member of the South the bar in 1860 and commenced practice in Brownstown, Carolina state general assembly, 1985-2000; member of the Ind.; member of the State house of representatives 1862- Hanahan, S.C., city council, 1996-2000; elected as a Repub- 1866; member of the State senate in 1870; secretary of the lican to the One Hundred Seventh and to the succeeding Territory of Wyoming 1873-1875; moved to Seymour, Ind., Congress (January 3, 2001-present). in 1875; again a member of the State senate 1880-1883; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and BROWN, James (brother of John Brown of Virginia and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1895); chair- Kentucky (1757-1837), cousin of John Breckinridge, James man, Committee on Elections (Fifty-third Congress); unsuc- Breckinridge, and Francis Preston, uncle of James Brown cessful candidate for renomination in 1894; resumed the Biographies 721

practice of law in Seymour, Jackson County, Ind., and died pleted his studies at William and Mary College, Williams- there March 10, 1898; interment in Riverview Cemetery. burg, Va.; taught school for several years; studied law; ad- mitted to the bar in 1782 and commenced practice in Frank- BROWN, Jeremiah, a Representative from Pennsylvania; fort, Ky.; member, Virginia senate from the district of Ken- born in Little Britain (now Fulton) Township, Lancaster tucky 1784-1788; Delegate from the Kentucky district of Vir- County, Pa., April 14, 1785; engaged in milling and agricul- ginia to the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788; elected tural pursuits; member of the State house of representatives from Virginia to the First and Second Congresses and served in 1826; delegate to the convention to revise the State con- from March 4, 1789, to June 1, 1792, when that portion stitution in 1836; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh of Virginia which is now Kentucky was admitted as a State and Twenty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1841-March 3, into the Union; elected as Anti-Administration (later Demo- 1845); was not a candidate for renomination in 1844 to cratic Republican) on June 18, 1792, to the United States the Twenty-ninth Congress; first associate judge for Lan- Senate from Kentucky for the term ending March 3, 1793; caster and served from 1851 to 1856; died in Goshen, Fulton reelected on December 11, 1792, and again in 1799, and Township, Lancaster County, Pa., March 2, 1858; interment served from June 18, 1792, to March 3, 1805; served as in the cemetery adjoining Penn Hill Quaker Meeting House, President pro tempore of the Senate during the Eighth Con- Little Britain (later Fulton) Township, Pa. gress; resumed the practice of law; died in Frankfort, Ky., BROWN, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; August 29, 1837; interment in Frankfort Cemetery. born in Kishacoquillas Valley, near Lewistown, Mifflin Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- ography; Sprague, Stuart S. ‘‘Senator John Brown of Kentucky, 1757-1837: County, Pa., August 12, 1772; attended the common schools; A Political Biography.’’ Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1972; moved to Lewistown, Pa., in 1800; engaged in the gristmill Warren, Elizabeth. ‘‘John Brown and His Influence on Kentucky Politics: and sawmill business; member of the State house of rep- 1784-1805.’’ Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, 1937. resentatives 1809-1813; elected to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1825); re- BROWN, John Brewer, a Representative from Mary- sumed his former business pursuits; moved to Limestone, land; born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 13, 1836; attended Buncombe County, N.C., in 1827 and engaged in agricultural Centerville (Maryland) Academy and Dickinson College, Car- pursuits and in the real estate business; died in a section lisle, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 of Buncombe County, N.C., then called Limestone, near and practiced in Centerville, Queen Annes County, Md.; Skyland, on October 12, 1845; interment in Riverside Ceme- member of the State house of delegates in 1870; served tery, Asheville, N.C. in the State senate 1888-1892; elected as a Democrat to Bibliography: Rowe, Ellen M. John Brown of the Old Stone House, the Fifty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. [Slippery Rock, Pa.: Slippery Rock University, resignation of Henry Page and served from November 8, 1987]. 1892, to March 3, 1893; declined to be a candidate for re- nomination in 1892; resumed the practice of law; died in BROWN, John (uncle of Benjamin Brown and grand- Centerville May 16, 1898; interment in Chesterfield Ceme- father of John Brown Francis), a Representative from Rhode tery. Island; born in Providence, R.I., January 27, 1736; engaged in mercantile pursuits; one of the party which destroyed BROWN, John Robert, a Representative from Virginia; the British sloop of war Gaspee in Narragansett Bay June born near Snow Creek, Franklin County, Va., January 14, 17, 1772; sent in irons to Boston for trial, but released 1842; attended private schools in Franklin and Henry Coun- through the efforts of his brother Moses; laid the cornerstone ties; entered the Confederate Army in 1861 as a private of the first building of the College of Rhode Island (now in Company D, Twenty-fourth Regiment, Virginia Volun- Brown University) May 14, 1770; trustee of Brown Univer- teers; formed a partnership with his father in the tobacco sity, Providence, R.I., 1774-1803; treasurer 1775-1796; mem- business at Shady Grove in 1870; moved to Martinsville, ber of the State house of representatives 1782-1784; chosen Henry County, in 1882 and continued in the tobacco busi- as a Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1784 and 1785, ness; also engaged in banking; mayor of Martinsville 1884- but did not serve; elected as a Federalist to the Sixth Con- 1888; elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth Congress gress (March 4, 1799-March 3, 1801); resumed his former (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); unsuccessfully contested the business pursuits; died in Providence, R.I., September 20, election of Claude A. Swanson to the Fifty-fifth Congress; 1803; interment in the North Burial Ground. reengaged in the tobacco business; retired from active busi- ness pursuits; died in Martinsville August 4, 1927; inter- BROWN, John, a Representative from Maryland; birth ment in Oakwood Cemetery. date unknown; member of the State house of delegates, 1807-1808; elected as a Republican to the Eleventh and BROWN, John W., a Representative from New York; served until his resignation in 1810 (March 4, 1809-1810); born in Dundee, Scotland, October 11, 1796; immigrated reelected to the Twelfth Congress, but resigned before the to the United States in 1802 with his father, who settled close of the Eleventh Congress, to accept an appointment in Newburgh, N.Y.; attended the public schools; studied law; as clerk of the court of Queen Annes County, Md., which was admitted to the New York bar in 1818 and commenced office he held until his death in Centerville, Queen Annes the practice of law in Newburgh, N.Y.; elected justice of County, December 13, 1815; interment in Chesterfield Ceme- the peace in 1820; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty- tery. third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); resumed the practice of law; elected judge of the BROWN, John (brother of James Brown and grandfather supreme court for the second judicial district of New York of Benjamin Gratz Brown, cousin of John Breckinridge, in 1849; reelected in 1857, and served until 1865; resumed James Breckinridge, and Francis Preston), a Delegate and the practice of law; died in Newburgh September 6, 1875; a Representative from Virginia and a Senator from Ken- interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery. tucky; born in Staunton, Va., September 12, 1757; attended Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), BROWN, John Young (nephew of Bryan Rust Young Lexington, Va., and Princeton College; enlisted in the Revo- and William Singleton Young), a Representative from Ken- lutionary Army and served until the close of the war; com- tucky; born in Claysville, Hardin County, Ky., June 28, 722 Biographical Directory

1835; was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation in 1855; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and of John B. Gordon; reelected in 1885 and served from May commenced practice in Elizabethtown, Ky.; elected as a 26, 1880, until March 3, 1891; not a candidate for reelection; Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859- died in Atlanta, Ga., November 30, 1894; interment in Oak- March 3, 1861), but because he had not attained the age land Cemetery. required by the Constitution he did not take his seat until Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- the second session; member of the Douglas National Com- ography; Parks, Joseph. Joseph E. Brown of Georgia. Baton Rouge: Lou- mittee in 1860; elected to the Fortieth Congress, but his isiana State University Press, 1977; Roberts, Derrell C. Joseph E. Brown seat was declared vacant because of alleged disloyalty; elect- and the Politics of Reconstruction. University, Ala.: University of Alabama ed to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March Press, 1973. 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); censured by the House of Represent- BROWN, Lathrop, a Representative from New York; atives on February 4, 1875, for the use of unparliamentary born in New York City February 26, 1883; was graduated language; resumed the practice of law in Louisville; Gov- from Groton School, Massachusetts, in 1900 and from Har- ernor of Kentucky 1891-1895; returned to Louisville, where vard University in 1903; engaged in the real estate business; he practiced law until his death in Henderson, Henderson served in Squadron A, National Guard of New York, for County, Ky., January 11, 1904; interment in Fernwood Cem- five years; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress etery. (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessfully contested the election of Frederick C. Hicks to the Sixty-fourth Congress; BROWN, John Young, a Representative from Kentucky; special assistant to the Secretary of the Interior from March born on a farm near Geigers Lake, Union County, Ky., Feb- 1917 to October 1918; served as a private in the Tank Corps ruary 1, 1900; attended the county schools and the high during the First World War; joint secretary of President school at Sturgis, Ky.; Centre College, Danville, Ky., A.B., Wilson’s Industrial Conference in 1919; delegate to the 1921, and from the law department of the University of Democratic National Conventions in 1920, 1924, and 1936; Kentucky at Lexington, LL.B., 1926; was admitted to the studied monetary theory at the Graduate School of Harvard bar the same year and commenced practice in Lexington, University 1928-1932; moved to California in 1946 and set- Ky.; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; city representa- tled on a cattle ranch; elected to the sheriff’s posse of Mon- tive of Lexington, Ky., in 1930; county representative of terey County in 1947; member of committee to supervise Fayette County, Ky., in 1932 and again in 1946; member Graduate School of Public Administration of Harvard Uni- of the State house of representatives 1930 to 1932, serving versity in 1954 and 1955; died in Fort Myers, Fla., Novem- as speaker in 1932; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy- ber 28, 1959; cremated; ashes interred in Abbey of the Light, third Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935); unsuccess- Manasota Memorial Park, Sarasota, Fla. ful candidate for renomination in 1934; resumed the practice of law; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the United BROWN, Milton, a Representative from Tennessee; born States Senate in 1946; member, State legislature in 1953 in Lebanon, Ohio, February 28, 1804; moved to Nashville, and 1954; defeated for the Democratic nomination in 1960 Tenn.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced for United States Senator; member, Kentucky house of rep- practice in Paris, Tenn.; later moved to Jackson, Tenn.; be- resentatives, 1962-1963, and 1966-1967, during which time came judge of the chancery court of west Tennessee in 1835 he served as majority floor leader; returned to law practice and held this position until elected as a Whig to the Twenty- in Lexington and Louisville; died in Louisville, Ky., June seventh Congress; reelected to the two succeeding Con- 16, 1985; interment at Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky. gresses (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1847); resumed the practice of law; one of the founders of Southwestern University (later BROWN, Joseph Edgar (son of Foster Vincent Brown), Union University) and of Lambuth College, both in Jackson, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Jasper, Marion Madison County, Tenn.; president of the Mississippi Central County, Tenn., February 11, 1880; attended Baylor’s Pre- & Tennessee Railroad Co., 1854-1856; president of the Mo- paratory School, Chattanooga, Tenn., and was graduated bile & Ohio Railroad Co., 1856-1871; died in Jackson, Tenn., from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1902; stud- on May 15, 1883; interment in Riverside Cemetery. ied law; was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1904 and commenced practice in Jasper, Tenn.; moved to Chattanooga, BROWN, Norris, a Senator from Nebraska; born in Tenn., in 1907 and continued the practice of law; elected Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa, May 2, 1863; attended as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, the common schools; graduated from the law department 1921-March 3, 1923); was not a candidate for renomination of the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1883; admitted in 1922; served as chairman of the Republican State execu- to the bar in 1884 and commenced practice in Perry, Dallas tive committee 1922-1924; resumed the practice of law in County, Iowa; moved to Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebr., Chattanooga, Tenn.; delegate to the Republican National in 1888, and continued the practice of law; prosecuting attor- Convention in 1924; died in Chattanooga June 13, 1939; ney of Buffalo County 1892-1896; deputy attorney general interment in Forest Hills Cemetery. of Nebraska 1900-1904; attorney general of Nebraska 1904- 1906; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate BROWN, Joseph Emerson, a Senator from Georgia; and served from March 4, 1907, to March 3, 1913; unsuc- born in the Pickens District of South Carolina April 15, cessful candidate for renomination 1912; chairman, Com- 1821; moved to Georgia; attended Calhoun Academy in mittee on Patents (Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses); South Carolina; taught school; studied law; admitted to the resumed the practice of law in Omaha, Nebr., 1913-1942; bar in 1845 and later graduated from the Yale Law School; retired and moved to Seattle, Wash., where he died January returned to Georgia and commenced practice in 1846; mem- 5, 1960; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Nebr. ber, State senate 1849; judge of the superior court of the Blue Ridge circuit in 1855; Governor of Georgia 1855-1865, BROWN, Paul, a Representative from Georgia; born near when he resigned; chief justice of the supreme court of Geor- Hartwell, Hart County, Ga., March 31, 1880; attended the gia 1865-1870, when he resigned and accepted the presi- public schools; was graduated in 1901 from the Lumpkin dency of the Western Atlantic Railroad Co.; appointed and Law School, University of Georgia, at Athens; was admitted subsequently elected in 1880 as a Democrat to the United to the bar the same year and practiced law in Lexington, Biographies 723

Ga., until 1920; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; mayor admitted to the bar in 1873 and commenced practice in of Lexington, Ga., 1908-1914; member of the State house Waynesville, Ohio; prosecuting attorney for Warren County of representatives in 1907 and 1908; moved to Elberton, 1880-1883; resumed the practice of law in Lebanon, Ohio; Ga., in 1920; county attorney of Elbert County 1928-1933; member of the State house of representatives 1883-1887; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1932; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress to fill Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1901); unsuccessful the vacancy caused by the death of Charles H. Brand; re- candidate for renomination in 1900; resumed the practice elected to the Seventy-fourth and to the twelve succeeding of law in Lebanon and Cincinnati, Ohio; writer on political Congresses and served from July 5, 1933, to January 3, and governmental subjects; died in Lebanon, Warren Coun- 1961; chairman, Joint Committee on Defense Production ty, Ohio, February 24, 1923; interment in Miami Cemetery, (Eighty-fourth and Eighty-sixth Congresses); was not a can- Waynesville, Ohio. didate for renomination in 1960; died in Elberton, Ga., Sep- tember 24, 1961; interment in Elmhurst Cemetery. BROWN, Sherrod, a Representative from Ohio; born in Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, November 9, 1952; B.A., BROWN, Prentiss Marsh, a Representative and a Sen- Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1974; M.A., Ohio State ator from Michigan; born in St. Ignace, Mackinac County, University, Ohio, 1981; member of the faculty, Ohio State Mich., June 18, 1889; attended the public schools, and the University, Mansfield, Ohio, 1979-1981; member of the Ohio University of Illinois at Urbana; graduated from Albion state house of representatives, 1975-1982; Ohio secretary (Mich.) College in 1911; studied law; admitted to the bar of state, 1983-1991; elected as a Democrat to the One Hun- in 1914 and commenced practice in St. Ignace, Mich.; pros- dred Third and to the five succeeding Congresses (January ecuting attorney of Mackinac County 1914-1926; city attor- 3, 1993-present). ney of St. Ignace 1916-1928; unsuccessful candidate for elec- tion in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress and for election BROWN, Titus, a Representative from New Hampshire; in 1928 as justice of the Michigan Supreme Court; member born in Alstead, Cheshire County, N.H., February 11, 1786; of the State board of law examiners 1930-1942; elected as was graduated from Middlebury (Vt.) College in 1811; stud- a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress; reelected to the ied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice Seventy-fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1933, in Reading, Vt., in 1814; moved to Francestown, N.H., in until his resignation, effective November 18, 1936; elected 1817 and continued the practice of law; member of the State as a Democrat on November 3, 1936, to the United States house of representatives 1820-1825; solicitor of Hillsborough Senate for the term beginning January 3, 1937, but was County 1823-1825 and 1829-1834; elected to the Nineteenth subsequently appointed to the United States Senate to fill and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1829); the vacancy caused by the death of James Couzens for the was not a candidate for reelection in 1828; member of the term ending January 3, 1937, and served from November State senate and served as its president in 1842; chairman 19, 1936, to January 3, 1943; unsuccessful candidate for of the boards of bank and railroad commissioners at the reelection in 1942; chairman, Committee on Claims (Sev- time of his death; died in Francestown, N.H., January 29, enty-seventh Congress); administrator in the Office of Price 1849; interment in Mill Village Cemetery. Administration 1943; resumed the practice of law in Wash- BROWN, Webster Everett, a Representative from Wis- ington, D.C., and Detroit, Mich.; chairman of the Mackinac consin; born near Peterboro village, Madison County, N.Y., Bridge Authority until his death; resided in St. Ignace, July 16, 1851; moved with his parents to Wisconsin in 1857; Mich., where he died December 19, 1973; interment in Lake- resided for a time in Newport, Columbia County, and then side Cemetery. in Hull and Stockton, Portage County; attended the common Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Brown, Prentiss M. The Mackinac Bridge Story. Detroit: Wayne University Press, 1956. schools; completed a preparatory course at Lawrence Univer- sity, Appleton, Wis., and later, in 1870, a business course BROWN, Robert, a Representative from Pennsylvania; at the Spencerian Business College, Milwaukee, Wis.; was born in Weaversville, East Allen Township, Northampton graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in County, Pa., December 25, 1744; attended the common 1874; engaged in the logging and lumber business at Stevens schools and was apprenticed to the blacksmith trade; at Point, Wis., in 1875; moved to Rhinelander, Oneida County, the beginning of the Revolutionary War was commissioned Wis., in 1882 and continued in the logging and lumber busi- first lieutenant in the Pennsylvania ‘‘Flying Camp’’ on Sep- ness; also engaged in manufacture of paper; mayor of tember 10, 1776; captured at the surrender of Fort Wash- Rhinelander in 1894 and 1895; elected as a Republican to ington November 16, 1776; worked at the blacksmith trade the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses while a prisoner; later put aboard the prison ship Judith (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1907); chairman, Committee on and subsequently imprisoned in the old city hall, New York Mines and Mining (Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses); City; paroled on board ship December 10, 1777; member was not a candidate for renomination in 1906; resumed his of the State senate 1783-1787; elected as a Republican to former business and manufacturing pursuits in Rhinelander, the Fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- Wis.; died in Chicago, Ill., while on a visit for medical treat- tion of Samuel Sitgreaves; reelected to the Sixth and to ment, December 14, 1929; interment in Forest Home Ceme- the seven succeeding Congresses and served from December tery, Rhinelander, Wis. 4, 1798, to March 3, 1815; was not a candidate for renomina- tion in 1814; retired from public life and lived on his farm; BROWN, William, a Representative from Kentucky; born died near Weaversville, Northampton County, Pa., February in Frederick County, Va., April 19, 1779; attended the com- 26, 1823; interment in East Allen Presbyterian Churchyard. mon schools; moved with his father to Bourbon County, Ky., in 1784 and to Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky., about BROWN, Seth W., a Representative from Ohio; born near 1795; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio, January 4, 1841; at- served as a colonel in the War of 1812; member of the tended the public schools; during the Civil War served in State house of representatives; elected to the Sixteenth Con- Company H, Seventy-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infan- gress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); moved to Jacksonville, try; engaged in the newspaper business; studied law; was Morgan County, Ill., in 1832, where he died October 6, 1833. 724 Biographical Directory

BROWN, William Gay (father of William Gay Brown, County 1894-1898; died in Kansas City, Mo., March 3, 1916; Jr.), a Representative from Virginia and from West Virginia; interment in Lawrence Cemetery, Lawrence, Douglas Coun- born in Kingwood, Preston County, Va. (now West Virginia), ty, Kans. September 25, 1800; attended the public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1823 and commenced prac- BROWN, William Wallace, a Representative from Penn- tice in Kingwood, Va.; member of the State house of dele- sylvania; born in Summer Hill, Cayuga County, N.Y., April gates in 1832 and 1840-1843; elected as a Democrat to the 22, 1836; moved with his parents to Elk County, Pa., in Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1845- 1838; attended the common schools and Smethport Acad- March 3, 1849); delegate to the State constitutional conven- emy; was graduated from Alfred University, Allegany Coun- tions in 1850 and 1861; delegate to the Democratic National ty, N.Y., in 1861; enlisted in the Twenty-third New York Conventions at Charleston and Baltimore in 1860; elected Volunteers in 1861; transferred to the First Pennsylvania as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, Rifles December 18, 1861; appointed recorder of deeds of 1861-March 3, 1863); upon the admission of West Virginia McKean County in 1864 and its superintendent of schools as a State into the Union was elected as an Unconditional in 1866; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1866 and Unionist to the Thirty-eighth Congress and served from De- practiced; elected district attorney of McKean County the cember 7, 1863, to March 3, 1865; died in Kingwood, W.Va., same year; moved in 1869 to Corry, Erie County, Pa., where April 19, 1884; interment in Maplewood Cemetery. he served three years as city attorney and two years in Bibliography: Winston, Sheldon. ‘‘West Virginia’s First Delegation to the city council; member of the State house of representa- Congress.’’ West Virginia History 29 (July 1968): 274-7. tives 1872-1876; appointed aide-de-camp to Governor Hartranft in 1876 and was associated with the National BROWN, William Gay, Jr. (son of William Gay Brown Guard of Pennsylvania; moved to Bradford, Pa., in 1878 [1800-1865]), a Representative from West Virginia; born in and continued the practice of law; elected as a Republican Kingwood, Preston County, Va. (now West Virginia), April to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 7, 1856; attended the common schools; was graduated from 1883-March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- the University of West Virginia at Morgantown in 1877; tion in 1886; resumed the practice of law; city solicitor of studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1877 and com- Bradford 1892-1897; auditor for the War Department 1897- menced practice in Preston County, W.Va.; also engaged 1899; auditor for the Navy Department 1899-1907; ap- in banking; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second, Sixty- pointed by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907, and served third, and Sixty-fourth Congresses and served from March until 1910, as Assistant Attorney General, in charge of de- 4, 1911, until his death in Washington, D.C., March 9, 1916; fense of Spanish treaty claims; resumed the practice of law interment in Kingwood Cemetery, Kingwood, W.Va. in Bradford, Pa., where he died November 4, 1926; inter- BROWN, William John, a Representative from Indiana; ment in Alfred Cemetery, Alfred, Allegany County, N.Y. born near Washington, Mason County, Ky., August 15, 1805; BROWN-WAITE, Virginia (Ginny), a Representative moved to Clermont County, Ohio, in 1808 with his parents, from Florida; born in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., October who settled near New Richmond; attended the common 5, 1943; B.S., State University of New York, Albany, N.Y., schools and Franklin Academy in Clermont County; moved 1976; M.S., Russell Sage College, Troy, N.Y., 1984; legisla- to Rushville, Rush County, Ind., in 1821; studied law; was tive director, New York state senate; Hernando County, Fla., admitted to the bar in 1826 and commenced practice in commissioner, 1990-1992; member of the Florida state sen- Rushville; member of the State house of representatives ate, 1992-2002; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred 1829-1832; prosecuting attorney 1831-1835; secretary of Eighth Congress (January 3, 2003-present). state of Indiana 1836-1840; moved to Indianapolis, Ind., in 1837; again a member of the State house of representatives BROWNBACK, Sam Dale, a Representative and a Sen- 1841-1843; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Con- ator from Kansas; born in Garnett, Kans., September 12, gress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); appointed Second As- 1956; grew up on his family’s farm near Parker, Kans., sistant Postmaster General by President Polk and served and graduated from Prairie View High School, Linn County, from 1845 until 1849; elected to the Thirty-first Congress Kans.; graduated from Kansas State University, Manhattan, (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); unsuccessful candidate for Kans., in 1979; received law degree from University of Kan- renomination in 1850; chief editor of the Indianapolis Sen- sas, Lawrence, in 1982; administrator, broadcaster, teacher, tinel 1850-1855; many times chairman of the Democratic attorney and author; Kansas Secretary of Agriculture 1986- State central committee of Indiana; appointed by President 1993; White House Fellow detailed to the Office of the U.S. Pierce as special agent of the Post Office Department for Trade Representative 1990-1991; elected as a Republican Indiana and Illinois, which position he held from 1853 until to the One Hundred Fourth Congress and began serving his death near Indianapolis, Ind., March 18, 1857; interment January 3, 1995; not a candidate for reelection to the United in Crown Hill Cemetery. States House of Representatives in 1996, but was elected to the United States Senate in a special election on Novem- BROWN, William Ripley, a Representative from Kansas; ber 5, 1996, to the unexpired portion of the term ending born in Buffalo, N.Y., July 16, 1840; was prepared for college January 3, 1999, left vacant by the resignation of Robert in Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., and was grad- Dole; resigned from the House of Representatives on Novem- uated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1862; went ber 27, 1996, retroactive to November 7, 1996, when his immediately to Kansas and settled in Emporia; studied law; Senate service began; reelected in 1998 and in 2004 for was admitted to the bar in 1864 and commenced practice the term ending January 3, 2011. in Emporia, Lyon County, Kans.; judge of the ninth judicial district of Kansas 1867-1877; elected as a Republican to BROWNE, Charles, a Representative from New Jersey; the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 28, 1875; attended pri- unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1876; resumed vate schools in Philadelphia; was graduated from Princeton the practice of law in Hutchinson, Kans.; register of the University in 1896; studied medicine, and was graduated United States land office in Larned, Kans., 1883-1885; from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1900; moved to El Reno, Okla., in 1892; probate judge of Canadian attended the University of Berlin in 1902 and 1903; overseer Biographies 725

of the poor, Princeton, N.J., 1912-1914; mayor of Princeton Stuart Horse Artillery; was surrendered with the Army of 1914-1923; served as first lieutenant and captain in the Northern Virginia in April 1865; was graduated from the Medical Corps from March 1917 to April 1919; resumed law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottes- the practice of his profession in Princeton; elected as a Dem- ville in 1867; admitted to the bar in 1868 and commenced ocrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1923-March practice in Accomac, Va.; elected prosecuting attorney for 3, 1925); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924 to Accomac County in 1873; elected as a Republican to the the Sixty-ninth Congress; member of the Board of Public Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, Utility Commissioners of New Jersey 1925-1931; served in 1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the the New Jersey house of assembly 1937-1939, and again Fifty-second Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in 1941 and 1942; adviser in the department of politics in Accomac, Va., August 27, 1892; interment in Mount Cur- at Princeton University; died in Princeton, August 17, 1947; tis Cemetery. remains were cremated and the ashes interred in the grounds of his home in Princeton. BROWNE, Thomas McLelland, a Representative from Indiana; born in New Paris, Preble County, Ohio, April 19, BROWNE, Edward Everts, a Representative from Wis- 1829; moved to Indiana in January 1844; attended the com- consin; born in Waupaca, Waupaca County, Wis., February mon schools; moved to Winchester, Randolph County, Ind., 16, 1868; attended the public schools and Waupaca High in 1848; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 and School; was graduated from the University of Wisconsin at commenced practice in Winchester; elected prosecuting attor- Madison in 1890 and from the law department of the same ney for the thirteenth judicial circuit in 1855; reelected in university in 1892; was admitted to the bar in 1892 and 1857 and 1859; secretary of the State senate in 1861; mem- commenced practice in Waupaca, Wis.; district attorney of ber of the State senate in 1863; assisted in organizing the Waupaca County 1898-1905; delegate to the Republican Seventh Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Cavalry of the Union State conventions in 1902, 1904, and 1906; member of the Army, and went to the field with that regiment as captain board of regents of the University of Wisconsin in 1905 of Company B, August 28, 1863; commissioned lieutenant and 1906; member of the State senate 1907-1912; elected colonel October 1, 1863; promoted to colonel October 10, as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the eight suc- 1865, and subsequently commissioned by President Lincoln ceeding Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1931); unsuc- as brigadier general by brevet March 13, 1865; mustered cessful candidate for renomination in 1930; resumed the out February 18, 1866; appointed United States attorney practice of law; member of the State conservation commis- for the district of Indiana in April 1869 and served until sion 1936-1941; died in Evanston, Ill., November 23, 1945; his resignation August 1, 1872; unsuccessful candidate for interment in Lakeside Cemetery, Waupaca, Wis. Governor in 1872; delegate to the Republican National Con- Bibliography: Sellery, G.C. ‘‘Edward E. Browne, 1868-1945.’’ Wisconsin vention in 1876; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Magazine of History 30 (December 1946): 186. and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1891); chairman, Committee on Invalid Pensions (Forty- BROWNE, George Huntington, a Representative from seventh Congress), Committee on Revision of the Laws Rhode Island; born in Gloucester, R.I., January 6, 1811; (Fifty-first Congress); was not a candidate for renomination attended the public schools and was graduated from Brown in 1890; died in Winchester, Ind., July 17, 1891; interment University in 1840; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Fountain Park Cemetery. in 1843 and commenced practice in Providence, R.I.; elected a representative to the so-called ‘‘Charter’’ General Assembly BROWNING, Gordon Weaver, a Representative from of Rhode Island in 1842; at the same time was elected a Tennessee; born near Atwood, Carroll County, Tenn., No- representative to what was termed the ‘‘Suffrage’’ legislature vember 22, 1889; attended the public schools; B.S., and attended the latter; member of the general assembly Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Ind., 1913; graduated under the constitution 1849-1852; appointed United States from Cumberland University Law School in 1915; was ad- district attorney in 1852 and served until 1861 when he mitted to the bar and commenced practice in Huntingdon, resigned; delegate to the Charleston and Baltimore Demo- Tenn., in 1915; enlisted in the National Guard in June 1917, cratic National Conventions in 1860; delegate to the peace and commissioned a second lieutenant of the First Ten- convention held in Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort nessee Field Artillery, afterwards the One Hundred and to devise means to prevent the impending war; elected as Fourteenth Field Artillery, Thirtieth Division; promoted to a candidate of the Democratic and Constitutional Union Par- first lieutenant and to captain and served in France; was ties to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March discharged from the service in 1919 and resumed the prac- 3, 1863); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to tice of law in Huntingdon, Tenn.; unsuccessful candidate the Thirty-eighth Congress; declined the appointment as for election in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; elected Governor of the Territory of Arizona in 1861; entered the as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding Union Army as colonel of the Twelfth Regiment, Rhode Is- Congresses (March 4, 1923-January 3, 1935); was not a can- land Volunteer Infantry, October 13, 1862, and served didate for renomination in 1934, but was an unsuccessful throughout the Civil War; member of the State senate in candidate for the Democratic nomination to the United 1872 and 1873; elected chief justice of the supreme court States Senate; one of the managers appointed by the House of Rhode Island in May 1874 but declined the office; died of Representatives in 1933 to conduct the impeachment pro- in Providence, R.I., September 26, 1885; interment in Swan ceedings against Harold Louderback, judge of the United Point Cemetery. States District Court for the Northern District of California; resumed the practice of law; Governor of Tennessee 1937- BROWNE, Thomas Henry Bayly, a Representative from 1939; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1938; Virginia; born at Accomac Court House, Accomac County, chancellor of the Eighth Tennessee Chancery Division 1942- Va., February 8, 1844; instructed by private tutors; attended 1949; was appointed a captain in the United States Army Hanover and Bloomfield Academies in Virginia; during the on February 17, 1943; attended the School of Military Gov- Civil War enlisted as a private in Company F, Thirty-ninth ernment at Charlottesville, Va.; advanced through the ranks Regiment, Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Confederate Army; to lieutenant colonel; acted as deputy head of the Belgium- afterwards served as a private in Chew’s battery of the Luxembourg missions until January 1946; with the military 726 Biographical Directory

government in Germany for one year, serving as civil-affairs and served in that capacity from 1881 to 1883; member adviser on the supreme commander’s staff; again Governor of the Republican National Committee in 1884, 1896, and of Tennessee from January 1949 to January 1953; unsuc- 1900; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth and to the cessful candidate for renomination in 1952 and for nomina- six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, tion as governor in 1954; engaged in the practice of law until his death; member of the Board of Managers for the and in the operation of a dairy farm; president of insurance National Soldiers’ Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers firm before retirement; resided in Huntingdon, Tenn., where 1902-1910; died at the National Soldiers’ Home, Johnson he died May 23, 1976; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. City, Washington County, Tenn., July 8, 1910; interment Bibliography: Majors, William R. The End of Arcadia: - in the Soldiers’ Home Cemetery. ing and Tennessee Politics. Memphis, Tenn.: Memphis State University Bibliography: Beeson, Helen S. ‘‘Walter P. Brownlow, Republican.’’ Press, 1982. Master’s thesis, East Tennessee State University, 1967. BROWNING, Orville Hickman, a Senator from Illinois; BROWNLOW, William Gannaway (uncle of Walter born in Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky., February 10, Preston Brownlow), a Senator from Tennessee; born near 1806; attended Augusta College; studied law; admitted to Wytheville, Wythe County, Va., August 29, 1805; attended the bar in 1831; moved to Quincy, Ill., in 1831 and practiced; the common schools; entered the Methodist ministry in 1826; served in the Illinois Volunteers during the Black Hawk moved to Elizabethton, Tenn., in 1828 and continued his War 1832; member, State senate 1836-1843; unsuccessful ministerial duties; published and edited a newspaper called candidate for election as a Whig in 1850 to the Thirty- the Whig at Elizabethton in 1839; moved the paper to second Congress and in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress; Jonesboro, Tenn., in 1840 and to Knoxville, Tenn., in 1849, delegate to the anti-Nebraska convention held at Bloom- and from his caustic and trenchant editorials became widely ington, Ill., in May 1856, which laid the foundations of the known as ‘the fighting parson’; unsuccessful candidate for Republican Party; appointed as a Republican to the United election in 1842 to Congress; appointed by President Millard States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Fillmore in 1850 a member of the Tennessee River Commis- Stephen A. Douglas and served from June 26, 1861, to Janu- sion for the Improvement of Navigation; delegate to the ary 12, 1863, when a successor was elected; was not a can- constitutional convention which reorganized the State gov- didate for election in 1863; chairman, Committee on En- ernment of Tennessee in 1864; elected Governor in 1865 rolled Bills (Thirty-seventh Congress); appointed by Presi- and again in 1867; elected as a Republican to the United dent Andrew Johnson as Secretary of the Interior 1866- States Senate and served from March 4, 1869, to March 1869, also discharging for a time the duties of Attorney 3, 1875; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Com- General; delegate to the State constitutional convention in mittee on Revolutionary Claims (Forty-third Congress); re- 1869; resumed the practice of law; died in Quincy, Adams turned to journalism in Knoxville, Tenn., until his death County, Ill., August 10, 1881; interment in Woodland Ceme- there on April 29, 1877; interment in the Old Grey Ceme- tery. tery. Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Baxter, Maurice. Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Ash, Stephen V., ed. Orville H. Browning: Lincoln’s Friend and Critic. Bloomington: Indiana Secessionists and Other Scoundrels: Selections from Parson Brownlow’s University Press, 1957; Browning, Orville. The Diary of Orville H. Brown- Book. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999; Coulter, E. ing, 1850-1881. Edited by T. C. Pease and J. Randall. Springfield: Trust- Merton. William G. Brownlow: Fighting Parson of the Southern Highlands. ees of the Illinois State Historical Society, 1925-1931. 1937. Reprint. Knoxville: University of Tennessee BROWNING, William John, a Representative from New BROWNSON, Charles Bruce, a Representative from In- Jersey; born in Camden, N.J., April 11, 1850; attended the diana; born in Jackson, Mich., February 5, 1914; moved Friends’ School; at an early age engaged in the wholesale with his parents to Flint, Mich., in 1916; attended the public dry goods business in Camden; member of the Camden schools; was graduated from the University of Michigan at Board of Education and of the city council; appointed post- Ann Arbor in 1935; entered Infantry Reserve training in master of Camden on June 18, 1889, and served until June 1935; moved to Indianapolis, Ind., in October 1936 and es- 1, 1894, when his successor was appointed; Chief Clerk of tablished the Central Wallpaper & Paint Corp.; entered on the House of Representatives of the United States 1895- active duty as first lieutenant Infantry Reserve, February 1911; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress 10, 1941; served as Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1, Eighty- to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry C. third Infantry Division, in 1943; executive officer to Assist- Loudenslager; reelected to the Sixty-third and to the three ant Chief of Staff G-1, First Army, during invasion planning succeeding Congresses and served from November 7, 1911, in England and combat in Europe until V-E Day; transferred until his death in the Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., with First Army Planning Headquarters to Canlubang, Phil- March 24, 1920; interment in Harleigh Cemetery, Camden, N.J. ippine Islands, August 5, 1945; released from active duty February 27, 1946, as lieutenant colonel, Army Reserve, and BROWNLOW, Walter Preston (nephew of William retired as colonel in 1974; Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Gannaway Brownlow), a Representative from Tennessee; and French Medaille de Reconnaissance; chairman Marion born in Abingdon, Washington County, Va., March 27, 1851; County Juvenile Court Advisory Council in 1948 and 1949; attended the common schools; employed as a telegraph mes- elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the senger boy when only ten years of age; became an apprentice three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, in the tinning business at the age of fourteen and later 1959); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the became a locomotive engineer; entered upon newspaper work Eighty-sixth Congress; assistant administrator for public af- as a reporter for the Knoxville Whig and Chronicle in 1876; fairs and congressional liaison, Housing and Home Finance in the same year purchased the Herald and Tribune in Agency, Washington, D.C., 1959-1964; editor and publisher Jonesboro, Tenn.; delegate to the Republican National Con- of Congressional Staff Directory; engaged in public relations ventions in 1880, 1884, 1896, 1900, and 1904; appointed in Washington, D.C., 1961-1985; was a resident of Coral postmaster at Jonesboro in March 1881; resigned in the Gables, Fla., and Mount Vernon, Va., until his death in following December to accept the position of Doorkeeper of Alexandria, Va., on August 4, 1988; interment in Arlington the House of Representatives in the Forty-seventh Congress National Cemetery. 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BROWNSON, Nathan, a Delegate from Georgia; born master at the beginning of the Civil War; taught school in Woodbury, Conn., May 14, 1742; was graduated from in Hannibal, Mo., and later attended Oberlin College, Ohio; Yale College in 1761; studied medicine and practiced in after the war became a planter in Mississippi; member of Woodbury; moved to Liberty County, Ga., about 1764; mem- the Mississippi Levee Board; sheriff and tax collector of Boli- ber of the Provincial Congress in 1775; surgeon in the Revo- var County 1872-1875; elected as a Republican to the United lutionary Army; Member of the Continental Congress in States Senate and served from March 4, 1875, to March 1777; member of the State house of representatives in 1781 3, 1881; was the first African American to serve a full term and served as speaker; chosen by that body as Governor in the United States Senate; appointed Register of the of Georgia in 1782; again elected to the State house of rep- Treasury by President James Garfield 1881; recorder of resentatives in 1788 and served as speaker; delegate to the deeds for the District of Columbia 1891-1893; again Register State convention to ratify the Federal Constitution in 1788 of the Treasury from 1897 until his death in Washington, and to the State constitutional convention in 1789; member D.C., on March 17, 1898; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. of the State senate 1789-1791 and served as president of Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- that body; died on his plantation near Riceboro, Liberty ography; Mann, Kenneth Eugene. ‘‘Blanche Kelso Bruce: United States County, Ga., November 6, 1796; interment in the Old Mid- Senator Without a Constituency.’’ Journal of Mississippi History 38 (May way Burial Ground. 1976): 183-98; St. Clair, Sadie. ‘‘The National Career of Blanche Kelso Bruce.’’ Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1948. BROYHILL, James Thomas, a Representative and a BRUCE, Donald Cogley, a Representative from Indiana; Senator from North Carolina; born in Lenoir, Caldwell born in Troutville, Clearfield County, Pa., April 27, 1921; County, N.C., August 19, 1927; attended the public schools graduated from high school in Allentown, Pa., and attended of Lenoir; graduated from the University of North Carolina Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio; engaged in the at Chapel Hill in 1950; employed with the Broyhill Fur- radio broadcasting industry, serving as program director, niture Factories of Lenoir in a number of executive capac- business manager, and general manager, 1941-1960; elected ities 1945-1962; member of the Planning and Zoning Com- as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh and Eighty-eighth mission and the Recreation Commission of Lenoir; elected Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1965); was not a as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth and to the eleven suc- candidate in 1964 for renomination to the Eighty-ninth Con- ceeding Congresses, and served from January 3, 1963, until gress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination July 14, 1986, when he resigned to serve in the U.S. Senate; for United States Senator in primary election; on leaving appointed on July 3, 1986, to the United States Senate Congress, he helped form the American Conservative Union, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John East, and a political action group; created a management and political served from July 14, 1986, to November 4, 1986, when a consulting firm, Bruce Enterprises in Round Hill, Va.; died successor was elected; unsuccessful candidate for election in Round Hill, Va., August 31, 1969; interment in Ebenezer to the Senate in 1986; chairman, Board of Economic Devel- Cemetery near Round Hill. opment for North Carolina 1987-1989; secretary, North Carolina Department of Commerce 1989-1991; served nine BRUCE, Phineas, a Representative from Massachusetts; years as a member of the board of trustees, and seven years born in Mendon, Mass., June 7, 1762; received a classical on the board of the Appalachian State Foundation of Appa- education and was graduated from Yale College in 1786; lachian State University in Boone, N.C.; co-chairman, North studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1790 and com- Carolina Welfare to Work Business Council 1998-2000; menced practice in Machias, Maine (then a district of Massa- served twelve years as member of the Economic Develop- chusetts); member of the Massachusetts house of representa- ment Committee of the North Carolina Chamber of Com- tives 1791-1798 and in 1800; elected as a Federalist to the merce, six years as chairman; is a resident of Winston- Eighth Congress commencing March 4, 1803, but was pre- Salem, N.C. vented by illness from qualifying; died in Uxbridge, Mass., October 4, 1809; interment in the Old Burying Ground; re- BROYHILL, Joel Thomas, a Representative from Vir- interment in Prospect Hill Cemetery. ginia; born in Hopewell, Prince George County, Va., Novem- ber 4, 1919; attended the public schools, Fork Union Military BRUCE, Terry Lee, a Representative from Illinois; born Academy, Fork Union, Va., and George Washington Univer- in Olney, Richland County, Ill., March 25, 1944; was grad- sity, Washington, D.C., 1939-1941, engaged in the building uated from East Richland High School in Olney in 1962, business in the firm of M. T. Broyhill & Sons since 1945; from the University of Illinois in Urbana in 1966, and from entered the United States Army in February 1942 as an the University of Illinois Law School in Urbana in 1969; enlisted man; served in European Theater as a captain in was admitted to the bar in 1969; member of the State sen- One Hundred and Sixth Infantry Division and was taken ate, 1971-1984, and assistant majority leader, 1975-1984; prisoner in Battle of the Bulge; after six months in German unsuccessful candidate for election to the Ninety-sixth Con- prison camps escaped and rejoined advancing American gress in 1978; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-ninth forces; after four years of services was released from active and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1985- duty November 1, 1945, as a captain of Infantry; resumed January 3, 1993); unsuccessful candidate for renomination real estate pursuits; president, Arlington County Chamber in 1992 to the One Hundred Third Congress; vice president of Commerce; chairman, Arlington County Planning Com- of federal regulations for a regional telephone company; is mission; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third Con- a resident of Olney, Ill. gress and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1953, until his resignation December 31, 1974; BRUCE, William Cabell, a Senator from Maryland; born unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety- in Staunton Hill, Charlotte County, Va., March 12, 1860; fourth Congress; resumed business interests in the building received an academic education at Norwood High School and construction industries; is a resident of Arlington, Va. and College, Nelson County, Va.; attended the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; graduated from the University BRUCE, Blanche Kelso, a Senator from Mississippi; of Maryland Law School at Baltimore in 1882; admitted born in slavery near Farmville, Prince Edward County, Va., to the Maryland bar the same year and commenced practice March 1, 1841; was tutored by his master’s son; left his in Baltimore, Md.; lawyer and writer; received the Pulitzer 728 Biographical Directory

Prize in 1917 for his biography of Benjamin Franklin; mem- ber 8, 1894; attended the public schools of North Woodbury ber, State senate 1894-1896, serving as president in 1896; Township, Pa., and the summer normal school at Martins- head of the city law department of Baltimore 1903-1908; burg, Pa.; student of the International Correspondence member, Baltimore Charter Commission 1910; general coun- School of Scranton, Pa.; in 1914 became interested in bank- sel to the Public Service Commission of Maryland 1910- ing at Claysburg, Pa.; during the First World War was a 1922, when he resigned; unsuccessful candidate for the private in the Thirty-third Division, Fifty-eighth Brigade Democratic nomination for United States Senator in 1916; Headquarters, serving overseas in 1918 and 1919; in 1921 elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and became interested in the lumber business and later estab- served from March 4, 1923, to March 3, 1929; unsuccessful lished an insurance agency; trustee of the Pennsylvania In- candidate for reelection in 1928; resumed the practice of dustrial School, Huntingdon, Pa., 1939-1943; elected as a law in Baltimore until 1937, when he retired; died in Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress to fill the va- Ruxton, Baltimore County, Md., May 9, 1946; interment in cancy caused by the resignation of James E. Van Zandt; St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church Cemetery, Garrison, Md. reelected to the Seventy-ninth Congress and served from Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- ography; Bruce, William C. Recollections. Baltimore: King Brothers, 1936; November 2, 1943, to January 3, 1947; was not a candidate Moore, John Hammond. ‘‘William Cabell Bruce, , and for renomination in 1946; secretary of banking of the Com- the Distribution of Ability in the United States.’’ Virginia Magazine of monwealth of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pa., 1947-1951; re- History and Biography 86 (July 1978): 355-61. sumed banking interests as president of the First National Bank of Claysburg; served in Pennsylvania State senate BRUCKER, Ferdinand, a Representative from Michigan; 1963-1967; resided in Claysburg, Pa., where he died April born in Bridgeport, Saginaw County, Mich., January 8, 1858; 22, 1977; interment in Fairview Cemetery, Martinsburg, Pa. attended the common schools; member of the State militia 1878-1881; was graduated from the law department of the BRUMM, Charles Napoleon (father of George Franklin University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1881; was admitted Brumm), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Potts- to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Sagi- ville, Schuylkill County, Pa., June 9, 1838; attended the naw, Mich.; alderman of East Saginaw 1882-1884; judge common schools and Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa.; of the probate court of Saginaw County 1888-1896; delegate studied law for two years; under the first call of President to the Democratic National Convention in 1896; elected as Lincoln for three-months’ men enlisted as a private and a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March was elected first lieutenant of Company I, Fifth Regiment, 3, 1899); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; reenlisted September 15, 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of 1861, for three years and was elected first lieutenant of law; died in Saginaw, Mich., on March 3, 1904; interment Company K, Seventy-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun- in Bridgeport Cemetery, Bridgeport, Mich. teer Infantry, November 18, 1861; detailed on the staff of BRUCKNER, Henry, a Representative from New York; General Barton as assistant quartermaster and aide-de- born in New York City, June 17, 1871; attended the common camp, which position he held under Generals Barton and and high schools in New York; became engaged in the manu- Pennypacker until the expiration of his term of service in facture of mineral waters in 1892; member of the State 1871; resumed the study of law; was admitted to the bar assembly in 1901; commissioner of public works for the Bor- in 1871 and commenced practice in Pottsville; unsuccessful ough of the Bronx, New York City, 1902-1905; elected as candidate for election in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress; a Democrat to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth elected as a Greenbacker to the Forty-seventh and Forty- Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, until December eighth Congresses and as a Republican to the Forty-ninth 31, 1917, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Rail- and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1889); un- ways and Canals (Sixty-fifth Congress); resumed his former successful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first business pursuits in New York City; also interested in bank- Congress; delegate to the Republican National Convention ing; president of the Borough of the Bronx 1918-1933; died in 1884; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and in New York City on April 14, 1942; interment in Woodlawn Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1899); chair- Cemetery. man, Committee on Claims (Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Con- gresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1898; BRUMBAUGH, Clement Laird, a Representative from elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused Ohio; born on a farm near Pikeville, Darke County, Ohio, by the death of George R. Patterson; reelected to the Sixtieth February 28, 1863; attended the district schools and the Congress and served from November 6, 1906, to January Greenville (Ohio) High School; taught school, worked on a 4, 1909, when he resigned, having been elected judge of farm, and tutored; was graduated from National Normal the court of common pleas of Schuylkill County, in which University, Lebanon, Ohio, in 1887; founded and conducted the Van Buren Academy 1887-1891; attended Ohio Wesleyan capacity he served until his death at Minersville, Pa., Janu- University, Delaware, Ohio, 1891-1893; was graduated from ary 11, 1917; chairman, Committee on Mileage (Sixtieth Harvard University in 1894; taught school in Washington, Congress); interment in Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, D.C., 1894-1896; superintendent of schools in Greenville, Pa. Ohio, 1896-1900; studied law; was admitted to the bar in BRUMM, George Franklin (son of Charles Napoleon 1900 and commenced practice in Columbus, Ohio; member Brumm), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in of the State house of representatives 1900-1904, serving as Minersville, Schuylkill County, Pa., January 24, 1880; at- minority leader; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third tended the common schools of Minersville, Pa., Washington, and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913- Pa., and Pottsville, Pa.; graduated from the University of March 3, 1921); chairman, Committee on Railways and Ca- nals (Sixty-fifth Congress); was not a candidate for renomi- Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., 1901; graduated from the nation in 1920; lived in retirement in Columbus, Ohio, until University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pa., his death there on September 28, 1921; interment in Green- 1907; lawyer, private practice; Pennsylvania Engineers, ville Cemetery, Greenville, Ohio. Mexican border, 1916; election commissioner for Texas in 1918 to take the vote of servicemen at cantonments; attor- BRUMBAUGH, David Emmert, a Representative from ney for the conscription board, World War I; unsuccessful Pennsylvania; born in Martinsburg, Blair County, Pa., Octo- Republican candidate for the nomination to Congress in Biographies 729

1918 and 1920; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and public schools; graduated from Luther College, Decorah, and to the succeeding Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3, Iowa, in 1913; taught business at Portland, N.Dak., 1913- 1927); chair, Committee on Expenditures in the Department 1914; also a farmer and businessman; member, State senate of the Navy (Sixty-ninth Congress); unsuccessful candidate 1927-1935, 1940-1951, serving as president pro tempore in for renomination to the Seventieth Congress in 1926; elected 1943 and majority floor leader 1945, 1947, and 1949; Gov- to the Seventy-first and to the two succeeding Congresses ernor of North Dakota 1951-1957; appointed on November (March 4, 1929-May 29, 1934); died on May 29, 1934, in 19, 1959, as a Republican to the United States Senate to Philadelphia, Pa.; interment in Charles Baber Cemetery, fill the vacancy caused by the death of and Pottsville, Pa. served from November 19, 1959, to August 7, 1960; was not a candidate for election to the vacancy; resumed agricul- BRUNDIDGE, Stephen, Jr., a Representative from Ar- tural pursuits until retirement in 1968; resided in Mayville, kansas; born in Searcy, White County, Ark., January 1, N.Dak., where he died on January 27, 1978; interment in 1857; educated by private tutors and in the public schools Mayville Cemetery. in his native city; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1879 and commenced practice in Newport, Ark.; returned BRUSH, Henry, a Representative from Ohio; born in to Searcy, Ark., in 1880 and continued the practice of law; Dutchess County, N.Y., in June 1778; completed preparatory elected prosecuting attorney of the first judicial district of studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1803 and Arkansas in 1886; reelected in 1888 and served until 1890; commenced practice in Chillicothe, Ohio; member of the resumed the practice of law; member of the Democratic State house of representatives in 1810; served in the State State central committee 1890-1892; elected as a Democrat senate in 1814; moved to London, Ohio; elected to the Six- to the Fifty-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses teenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); chairman, (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1909); was not a candidate for Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Six- renomination in 1908, but was an unsuccessful candidate teenth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in for Governor that year; resumed the practice of law in 1820 to the Seventeenth Congress; judge of the supreme Searcy, Ark.; unsuccessful candidate for election to the court of Ohio in 1828; retired to his farm near London, United States Senate in 1918; died in Searcy, Ark., January Madison County, Ohio, where he died January 19, 1855; 14, 1938; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. BRUNNER, David B., a Representative from Pennsyl- BRUYN, Andrew DeWitt, a Representative from New vania; born in Amity, Berks (now Washington) County, Pa., York; born in Warwarsing, Ulster County, N.Y., November March 7, 1835; attended the common schools; learned the 18, 1790; attended Kingston Academy, Kingston, N.Y., and carpenter’s trade; taught school from 1853 to 1856, during was graduated from Princeton College in 1810; studied law; which time he studied the classics; was graduated from was admitted to the bar in 1814 and commenced practice Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1860; principal of Read- in Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y.; justice of the peace in ing Classical Academy, Reading, Pa., 1860-1869; established 1817; first surrogate of Tompkins County 1817-1821; mem- the Reading Business College in 1880; elected as a Democrat ber of the State assembly in 1818; appointed trustee of to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses (March 4, Ithaca in 1821; president of the village in 1822; unsuccessful 1889-March 3, 1893); was not a candidate for renomination candidate for election to the State senate in 1825; county in 1892; taught at the Reading Business College; died in supervisor in 1825; treasurer of the village 1826-1828; judge Reading, Pa., on November 29, 1903; interment in Amityville of the court of common pleas 1826-1836; served as a director Cemetery, Berks County, Pa. of the Ithaca & Owego Railroad in 1828; also interested in banking; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Con- BRUNNER, William Frank, a Representative from New gress and served from March 4, 1837, until his death in York; born in Woodhaven, Queens County, N.Y., September Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y., on July 27, 1838; interment 15, 1887; attended the public schools, the high school at in Ithaca City Cemetery. Far Rockaway, N.Y., and Packard Commercial School at New York City; moved to Rockaway Park, Queens County, BRYAN, Guy Morrison, a Representative from Texas; N.Y., in 1901; engaged in the general insurance and real- born in Herculaneum, Jefferson County, Mo., January 12, estate business; served in the United States Navy as a yeo- 1821; moved to the Mexican State of Texas in 1831 with man first class 1917-1919; member of the State assembly his parents, who settled near San Felipe; attended private 1922-1928; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-first and schools; joined the Texas Army at San Jacinto in 1836; was to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March graduated from Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in 1842; 4, 1929, until his resignation on September 27, 1935, having studied law, but never practiced; engaged in planting; served been elected sheriff of Queens County, N.Y.; served as sher- as a private in the Brazoria company, under the command iff from 1935 until his resignation in 1936; president of of Captain Ballowe, during the Mexican War with the Texas the board of aldermen of New York City 1936-1938; resumed Volunteers on the eastern bank of the Rio Grande; member the insurance and real-estate business; commissioner of bor- of the State house of representatives 1847-1853; served in ough works, Queens County, N.Y., from July 1, to December the State senate 1853-1857; delegate to the Democratic Na- 31, 1941; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomina- tional Convention in 1856; chairman of the Texas delegation tion in 1942 and for election on the American Labor ticket in the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore in 1860; to the Seventy-eighth Congress; president of Rockaway elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March Beach Hospital (later named Peninsula General Hospital) 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); was not a candidate for renomina- 1946-1965; died in Far Rockaway, N.Y., April 23, 1965; in- tion in 1858; during the Civil War served as volunteer aide- terment in St. John’s Cemetery, Middle Village, N.Y. de-camp on the staff of General Herbert and afterwards as assistant adjutant general, with the rank of major, of BRUNSDALE, Clarence Norman, a Senator from North the trans-Mississippi Department; established a cotton bu- Dakota; born in Sherbrooke, Steele County, N.Dak., July reau in Houston, Tex., in order to escape the blockade along 9, 1891; resided on a farm near Hatton, N.Dak., until 1899, the Gulf; moved to Galveston, Tex., in 1872; again a member when family moved to Portland, N.Dak.; attended private of the State house of representatives in 1873, 1879, and 730 Biographical Directory

1887-1891, and served as speaker in 1873; moved to Quin- BRYAN, Nathan, a Representative from North Carolina; tana, Tex., in 1890 and to Austin, Travis County, Tex., in born in Craven (now Jones) County, N.C., in 1748; member 1898; elected president of the Texas Veterans Association of the house of commons of North Carolina in 1787 and in 1892 and served until his death in Austin, Tex., June 1791-1794; elected as a Republican to the Fourth and Fifth 4, 1901; interment in the State Cemetery. Congresses and served from March 4, 1795, until his death in Philadelphia, Pa., June 4, 1798; interment in the Baptist BRYAN, Henry Hunter (brother of Joseph Hunter burial ground on Second Street; reinterred at an unknown Bryan), a Representative from Tennessee; born in Martin location when the burial ground was used as a building County, N.C., February 23, 1786; attended grammar and site. high schools; moved to Tennessee and held several local offices; elected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819- BRYAN, Nathan Philemon (brother of William James March 3, 1821); had been reelected to the Seventeenth Con- Bryan), a Senator from Florida; born near Fort Mason, Or- gress but did not qualify; died in Montgomery County, ange (now Lake) County, Fla., April 23, 1872; attended the Tenn., May 7, 1835. common schools; graduated from Emory College, Oxford, Ga. (now Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.), in 1893 and from BRYAN, James Wesley, a Representative from Wash- the law department of Washington and Lee University, Lex- ington; born in Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, La., March ington, Va., in 1895; admitted to the bar in 1895 and com- 11, 1874; attended the public schools and Lake Charles Col- menced practice in Jacksonville, Fla.; chairman of the board lege at Lake Charles, La.; was graduated from Baylor Uni- of control of the Florida State institutions of higher edu- versity, Waco, Tex., in 1895 and from Yale University in cation 1905-1909; appointed on February 22, 1911, the legis- 1897; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1898 and lature having failed to elect, and subsequently elected as commenced practice at Lake Charles, La.; moved to Brem- a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from erton, Wash., in 1905 and continued the practice of law; March 4, 1911, to March 3, 1917; unsuccessful candidate city attorney in 1907, 1908, and again in 1911; member for renomination in 1916; chairman, Committee on Claims of the State senate 1908-1912; elected as a Progressive to (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses); resumed the prac- the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); tice of law; declined the appointment as Governor General was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1914 to of the Philippine Islands by President Woodrow Wilson in the Sixty-fourth Congress; owned and published the Navy 1917; trustee of Emory University; judge of the United Yard American from 1915 to 1917; resumed the practice States Circuit Court of Appeals of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of law; prosecuting attorney of Kitsap County 1926-1930; from April 1920 until his death in Jacksonville, Fla., on president of the Bremerton Port Commission 1933-1936; August 8, 1935; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. practiced law in Bremerton, Wash., until his death there Bibliography: U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (5th Circuit). Memorial on August 26, 1956; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Proceedings for Judge Nathan P. Bryan. New Orleans: E.S. Upton Printing Co., 1935. BRYAN, John Heritage, a Representative from North Carolina; born in New Bern, N.C., November 4, 1798; stud- BRYAN, Richard H, a Senator from Nevada; born in ied under private teachers and attended New Bern Acad- Washington, D.C., July 16, 1937; attended public school in emy; was graduated from the University of North Carolina Las Vegas, Nev., graduated from University of Nevada, in 1815; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1819 and Reno, 1959; received law degree from University of Cali- commenced practice in New Bern, N.C.; member of the State fornia (Hastings) College of Law, 1963; United States Army senate in 1823 and 1824; trustee of the University of North 1959-1960; admitted to the bar and commenced practice of Carolina at Chapel Hill 1823-1868; elected to the Nineteenth law in Nevada, 1963; public defender 1966-1968; member and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1829); of the Nevada senate 1972-1978; Nevada attorney general was not a candidate for renomination in 1828; resumed the 1979-1983; Governor of Nevada 1983-1989; elected as a practice of law in New Bern; moved to Raleigh in 1839 Democrat to the United States Senate in 1988; reelected and continued the practice of law; died in Raleigh, N.C., in 1994, and served from January 3, 1989, to January 3, May 19, 1870; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. 2001; was not a candidate for reelection in 2000; chairman, Select Committee on Ethics (One Hundred Third Congress). BRYAN, Joseph, a Representative from Georgia; born in Savannah, Ga., August 18, 1773; was educated by private BRYAN, William James (brother of Nathan Philemon tutors and attended Oxford University in England; traveled Bryan), a Senator from Florida; born near Fort Mason, Or- in France during the Revolutionary War; engaged in agricul- ange (now Lake) County, Fla., October 10, 1876; attended tural pursuits on Wilmington Island, Ga.; elected as a Re- the public schools; graduated from Emory College, Oxford, publican to the Eighth and Ninth Congresses and served Ga., (now Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.) in 1896 and from from March 4, 1803, until his resignation in 1806; engaged the law department of Washington and Lee University, Lex- in planting; died on his estate, ‘‘Nonchalance,’’ Wilmington ington, Va., in 1899; admitted to the bar in 1899 and com- Island, near Savannah, Ga., on September 12, 1812; inter- menced practice in Jacksonville, Fla.; solicitor of the Duval ment in the family burial ground on his estate. County Criminal Court of Record 1902-1907; appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy BRYAN, Joseph Hunter (brother of Henry Hunter caused by the death of Stephen R. Mallory and served from Bryan), a Representative from North Carolina; born in Mar- December 26, 1907, until his death in Washington, D.C., tin County, N.C., April 9, 1782; member of the State house March 22, 1908; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Jackson- of commons 1804, 1805, and 1807-1809; trustee of the Uni- ville, Fla. versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1809-1817, and Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 60th Cong., 1st sess., was sent to Tennessee on behalf of the university to secure 1907-1908. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1909. from the general assembly of Tennessee its claims to escheated lands; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth BRYAN, William Jennings (father of Ruth Bryan and Fifteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1819); Owen), a Representative from Nebraska; born in Salem, died at La Grange, Fayette County, Tenn., December 28, Marion County, Ill., March 19, 1860; attended the public 1839; interment in Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn. schools and Whipple Academy, Jacksonville, Ill.; was grad- Biographies 731

uated from Illinois College, Jacksonville, Ill., in 1881; stud- unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United States ied law at Union College in Chicago; was graduated in 1883 Senate. and commenced practice at Jacksonville, Ill., in 1883; moved to Lincoln, Nebr., in 1887 and continued the practice of BRYCE, Lloyd Stephens, a Representative from New law; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and Fifty- York; born in Flushing, Queens County, N.Y., September third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); declined 4, 1851; attended the public schools and Georgetown Univer- to be a candidate for reelection in 1894; unsuccessful can- sity, Washington, D.C.; was graduated from Oxford Univer- didate for election to the United States Senate in 1894; sity, England, in 1869; studied law at Columbia Law School, delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1896, New York City; paymaster general for the State of New 1904, 1912, 1920, and 1924; unsuccessful Democratic can- York in 1886 and 1887; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth didate for President in 1896, 1900, and 1908; was endorsed Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); unsuccessful can- by the Populist and Silver Republican Parties in the first didate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; edi- and second campaigns; during the Spanish-American War tor of the North American Review 1889-1896; appointed raised the Third Regiment, Nebraska Volunteer Infantry, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the in May 1898 and was commissioned colonel; established a Netherlands August 12, 1911, and served to September 10, newspaper, ‘‘The Commoner,’’ at Lincoln, Nebr., in 1901; 1913; died in Flushing, N.Y., April 2, 1917; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. engaged in editorial writing and delivering Chautauqua lec- tures; Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Wilson BRYSON, Joseph Raleigh, a Representative from South and served from March 4, 1913, until June 9, 1915, when Carolina; born in Brevard, Transylvania County, N.C., Janu- he resigned; resumed his former pursuits of lecturing and ary 18, 1893; moved, with his parents, to Greenville, Green- writing; established his home in Miami, Fla., in 1921; died ville County, S.C., in 1900; attended the public schools; was while attending court in Dayton, Tenn., July 26, 1925; inter- graduated from Furman University, Greenville, S.C., in 1917 ment in Arlington National Cemetery. and from the law department of the University of South Bibliography: Bryan, William Jennings, and Mary Baird Bryan. Mem- Carolina at Columbia in 1920; enlisted on September 28, oirs of William Jennings Bryan, by Himself and his Wife. 2 vols. 1925. 1915, as a private in Company A, First Infantry, South Reprint. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat, 1971; Coletta, Paolo E. William Carolina National Guard, and served until discharged on Jennings Bryan Political Evangelist, 1860-. Lincoln, Nebr.: University of August 9, 1916; reenlisted on August 3, 1917, in the Medical Nebraska Press, 1964; Coletta, Paolo E. William Jennings Bryan Political Reserve Corps, being discharged as a second lieutenant of Puritan, 1915-192. Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press, 1969; Coletta, Paolo E. William Jennings Bryan Progressive Politician and Mo. Infantry on December 12, 1918; was admitted to the bar Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press, 1969; Koenig, Louis W. in 1920 and commenced practice in Greenville, S.C.; member Bryan: A Political Biography of William Jennings Bryan. New York: Put- of the State house of representatives 1921-1924; served in nam, 1971. the State senate 1929-1932; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and to the seven succeeding Congresses, and BRYANT, Ed, a Representative from Tennessee; born in served from January 3, 1939, until his death in the naval Jackson, Cooksville County, Tenn., September 7, 1948; grad- hospital at Bethesda, Md., March 10, 1953; interment in uated from Jackson High School, Jackson, Tenn.; B.A., Uni- Woodlawn Memorial Park, Greenville, S.C. versity of Mississippi, University, Miss., 1970; J.D., Univer- sity of Mississippi, University, Miss., 1972; United States BUCHANAN, Andrew, a Representative from Pennsyl- Army Reserve Officers Training Corps, 1970; United States vania; born in Chester County, Pa., April 8, 1780; was grad- Army, 1970-1978; faculty, United States Military Academy, uated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.; studied law; West Point, N.Y., 1977-1978; United States Attorney for the was admitted to the bar in 1798 and commenced practice Western District of Tennessee, 1991-1993; elected as a Re- in York, Pa.; located in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pa., publican to the One Hundred Fourth and to the three suc- in 1803; member of the State house of representatives; ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1995-January 3, 2003); one served in the State senate; elected as a Jacksonian to the of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives Twenty-fourth Congress, and as a Democrat to the Twenty- in 1998 to conduct the impeachment proceedings of Presi- fifth Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1839); chairman, dent William Jefferson Clinton; not a candidate for reelec- Committee on Elections (Twenty-fifth Congress); resumed tion to the One Hundred Eighth Congress in 2002, but was the practice of his profession until his death in Waynesburg, Pa., on December 2, 1848; interment in Greene Mount Cem- an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United etery. States Senate. BUCHANAN, Frank, a Representative from Illinois; born BRYANT, John Wiley, a Representative from Texas; on a farm near Madison, Jefferson County, Ind., June 14, born in Lake Jackson, Brazoria County, Tex., February 22, 1862; attended the rural schools of the county; engaged in 1947; attended Lake Jackson Elementary School; graduated, agricultural pursuits at home and subsequently became a Brazosport High School, Freeport, Tex., 1965; B.A., Southern bridge builder and structural iron worker in Chicago; served Methodist University, Dallas, Tex., 1969; J.D., Southern as business agent for the Bridge and Structural Iron Work- Methodist University School of Law, 1972; admitted to the er’s Union and was elected president of the International Texas bar, 1972 and commenced practice in Dallas; served Structural Iron Worker’s Union in 1901; unsuccessful can- as counsel to a committee of the Texas senate, 1973; elected, didate for election in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress and in a special election, to Texas house of representatives, 1974, again in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress; elected as a Demo- and reelected, 1974-1982; delegate, Democratic National crat to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth Con- Convention, 1976; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety- gresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1917); unsuccessful can- eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, didate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress; 1983-January 3, 1997); one of the managers appointed by resumed his former business pursuits as a structural iron the House of Representatives in 1988 to conduct the im- worker; died in Chicago, Ill., April 18, 1930; interment in peachment proceedings against Alcee Lamar Hastings, judge Irving Park Boulevard Cemetery. of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida; was not a candidate in 1996 for reelection to BUCHANAN, Frank (husband of Vera Daerr Buchanan), the United States House of Representatives, but was an a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in McKeesport, 732 Biographical Directory

Allegheny County, Pa., December 1, 1902; attended the pub- 3, 1831); chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty- lic schools and was graduated from the University of Pitts- first Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in burgh in 1925; teacher in high schools of Homestead and 1830; one of the managers appointed by the House of Rep- McKeesport, Pa., 1924-1928 and 1931-1942; automobile deal- resentatives in 1830 to conduct the impeachment pro- er 1928-1931; economic consultant 1928-1946; served as ceedings against James H. Peck, judge of the United States mayor of McKeesport, Pa., 1942-1946; elected as a Democrat District Court for the District of Missouri; Minister to Russia to the Seventy-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused 1832-1834; elected as a Democrat (Jacksonian) to the United by the resignation of Samuel A. Weiss; reelected to the States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation Eightieth, Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses and of William Wilkins; reelected in 1837 and 1843 and served served from May 21, 1946, until his death in Bethesda, from December 6, 1834, until he resigned on March 5, 1845, Md., April 27, 1951; chairman, Select Committee on Lob- to accept a Cabinet portfolio; chairman, Committee on For- bying Activities (Eighty-first Congress); interment in Mount eign Relations (Twenty-fourth through Twenty-sixth Con- Vernon Cemetery, Elizabeth Township (near McKeesport), gresses); Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Pa. James Polk 1845-1849; Minister to Great Britain 1853-1856; elected as a Democrat as President of the United States BUCHANAN, Hugh, a Representative from Georgia; born in 1856 and served from March 4, 1857, to March 3, 1861; in Argyleshire, Scotland, September 15, 1823; immigrated retired to his home ‘‘Wheatland,’’ near Lancaster, Pa., where to the United States and settled in Vermont; attended the he died June 1, 1868; interment in Woodward Hill Cemetery, public schools of that State; studied law; was admitted to Lancaster, Pa. the bar in 1845 and commenced practice in Newnan, Coweta Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- County, Ga., in 1846; member of the State senate in 1855 ography; Buchanan, James. The Works of James Buchanan. Edited by and 1857; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions John B. Moore. 12 vols. Philadelphia: Lippincott Company, 1908-1911; in 1856 and 1868; presidential elector on the Democratic Baker, Jean H. James Buchanan. New York: Times Books, 2004. ticket of Breckinridge and Lane in 1860; during the Civil War enlisted in the Confederate Army in June 1861 and BUCHANAN, James Paul (cousin of Edward William served until 1865; elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, but Pou), a Representative from Texas; born in Midway, Orange- his credentials were not presented to the House as the State burg County, S.C., April 30, 1867; moved to Texas in 1867 had not been readmitted to representation; appointed judge with his parents, who settled near Chapel Hill, Washington of the superior court of the Coweta circuit in August 1872 County; attended the district school; graduated from the and served until September 1880; delegate to the State con- law department of the University of Texas, Austin, stitutional convention of 1877; elected as a Democrat to the Tex.,1889; admitted to the bar; lawyer, private practice; jus- Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1881- tice of the peace of Washington County, Tex., 1889-1892; March 3, 1885); was not a candidate for renomination in prosecuting attorney, 1892-1899; district attorney for the 1884; died in Newnan, Ga., June 11, 1890; interment in twenty-first judicial district of Texas, 1899-1906; member Oak Hill Cemetery. of the Texas state house of representatives, 1906-1913; elect- ed as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress to fill the BUCHANAN, James, a Representative from New Jersey; vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Rep- born in Ringoes, Hunterdon County, N.J., June 17, 1839; resentative Albert Sidney Burleson; reelected to the Sixty- attended the public schools and Clinton Academy; studied fourth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (April 15, law at Albany University; was admitted to the bar in 1864 1913-February 22, 1937); chair, Committee on Appropria- and commenced practice in Trenton, N.J.; reading clerk of tions (Seventy-third through Seventy-fifth Congresses); died the New Jersey House of Assembly in 1866; member of on February 22, 1937, in Washington, D.C.; interment in the Trenton Board of Education in 1868 and 1869; presiding Prairie Lea Cemetery, Brenham, Tex. judge of Mercer County 1872-1877; delegate to the Repub- lican National Convention in 1872; appointed a member of BUCHANAN, John Alexander, a Representative from the board of trustees of Peddie Institute, Hightstown, N.J., Virginia; born near Groseclose, Smyth County, Va., October in 1875; member of the Common Council of Trenton 1883- 7, 1843; attended the ‘‘old field’’ school and the local acad- 1885; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth and to emies at Chatham Hill and Marion, Va.; during the Civil the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, War served as a private in Company D, Virginia Infantry, 1893); chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Fifty-first Stonewall Brigade, of the Confederate Army; was captured Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination in at the Battle of Gettysburg July 3, 1863, and remained 1892; resumed the practice of law in Trenton; elected city a prisoner until February 1865; attended Emory and Henry solicitor of Trenton May 7, 1900, and served until his death; College, Emory, Va., 1865-1870 and was graduated in June trustee of Bucknell College, Lewisburg, Pa.; died in Trenton, 1870; studied law at the University of Virginia at Char- N.J., on October 30, 1900; interment in Mountain View Cem- lottesville in 1870 and 1871; was admitted to the bar in etery, Cherryville, Hunterdon County, N.J. 1872 and commenced practice in Abingdon, Va.; member of the State house of delegates 1885-1887; elected as a Dem- BUCHANAN, James, a Representative and a Senator ocrat to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses (March from Pennsylvania and 15th President of the United States; 4, 1889-March 3, 1893); declined to be a candidate for re- born at Cove Gap, near Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pa., nomination in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress; returned April 23, 1791; moved to Mercersburg, Pa., with his parents to the practice of law; elected associate judge of the court in 1799; was privately tutored and then attended the village of appeals of Virginia January 1, 1895, and served until academy; graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., January 1915; retired from political activities and engaged in 1809; moved to Lancaster, Pa., the same year; studied in agricultural pursuits; died near Emory, Washington law; admitted to the bar in 1812 and practiced in Lancaster; County, Va., on September 2, 1921; interment in the Old was one of the first volunteers in the War of 1812 and Glade Spring Presbyterian Cemetery, Glade Spring, Va. served in the defense of Baltimore; member, State house of representatives 1814-1815; elected to the Seventeenth and BUCHANAN, John Hall, Jr., a Representative from Ala- to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1821-March bama; born in Paris, Tenn., March 19, 1928; served in the Biographies 733

United States Navy 1945-1946; graduated from Samford BUCK, Charles Francis, a Representative from Lou- University, Birmingham, Ala., in 1949, did graduate work isiana; born in Durrheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, at the University of Virginia, and graduated from the South- November 5, 1841; immigrated to the United States in 1852 ern Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., in 1957; served with his parents, who settled in New Orleans, La.; was as pastor of churches in Tennessee, Virginia, and Alabama graduated from the high school of New Orleans in 1861; for ten years; unsuccessful candidate for election to the attended Louisiana State Seminary and Military Academy Eighty-eighth Congress in 1962; served as a supply pastor at Alexandria; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1867 in the Birmingham, Ala., area and as director of finance and commenced practice in New Orleans, La.; member of for the Alabama Republican Party, 1962-1964; elected as the school board of New Orleans for many years; city attor- a Republican to the Eighty-ninth and to the seven suc- ney of New Orleans 1880-1884; elected as a Democrat to ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1981); un- the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); successful candidate for renomination in 1980 to the Ninety- declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1896; resumed seventh Congress; member, United States delegation to the the practice of law; unsuccessful candidate for mayor of New United Nations, 1973 and 1984; member, United States dele- Orleans in 1896 and again 1904; member of the supreme gation, United Nations Human Rights Committee, 1978- court board of examiners for admission to the bar 1898- 1980; chairman, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Sec- 1900; died in New Orleans, La., January 19, 1918; interment ondary Education in the Department of Education, 1981- in the Metairie Cemetery. 1983; chairman, People for the American Way, 1982 to present; is a resident of Bethesda, Md. BUCK, Clayton Douglass (great-grandnephew of John M. Clayton), a Senator from Delaware; born at ‘Buena Vista,’ BUCHANAN, Vera Daerr (wife of Frank Buchanan), a the family estate, in New Castle County, Del., March 21, Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Wilson (later a 1890; was graduated from Friends School, Wilmington, Del., part of Clairton), Allegheny County, Pa., July 20, 1902; and for two years attended the University of Pennsylvania moved to Duquesne, Pa., and attended the public and paro- Engineering School at Philadelphia; engaged in road build- chial schools; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-second ing and engineering work in Delaware; chief engineer of Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her the Delaware State Highway Department 1922-1929; Gov- husband, Frank Buchanan; reelected to the Eighty-third and ernor of Delaware 1929-1937; engaged in the banking busi- Eighty-fourth Congresses and served from July 24, 1951, ness; member of the Republican National Committee 1930- until her death in McKeesport, Pa., November 26, 1955; 1937; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate interment in Mount Vernon Cemetery, in Elizabeth Town- in 1942 and served from January 3, 1943, to January 3, ship (near McKeesport), Pa. 1949; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948; chair- man, Committee on the District of Columbia (Eightieth Con- BUCHER, John Conrad, a Representative from Pennsyl- gress); resumed the banking business; tax commissioner of vania; born in Harrisburg, Pa., December 28, 1792; attended Delaware 1953-1957; was a resident of Buena Vista, New the public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar Castle County, Del., until his death January 27, 1965; inter- and commenced practice in Harrisburg; clerk of the land ment in family plot in Immanuel Episcopal Church Grounds, department of Pennsylvania in 1813; member of the borough New Castle, Del. council of Harrisburg; member of the board of school direc- tors; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress BUCK, Daniel (father of Daniel Azro Ashley Buck), a (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); trustee of Harrisburg Acad- Representative from Vermont; born in Hebron, Conn., No- emy, Franklin College, Lancaster, Pa., and Marshall College, vember 9, 1753; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Mercersburg, Pa.; by appointment of Governor Porter was 1783 and practiced in Thetford, Vt.; prosecuting attorney an associate judge of Dauphin County from 1839 until his of Orange County 1783-1785; clerk of the court in 1783 death in Harrisburg, Pa., October 15, 1851; interment in and 1784; moved to Norwich, Vt., in 1785; delegate to the the City Cemetery. State constitutional convention in 1791; member of the State house of representatives in 1793 and 1794 and served as BUCK, Alfred Eliab, a Representative from Alabama; speaker; elected as a Federalist to the Fourth Congress born in Foxcroft, Piscataquis County, Maine, February 7, (March 4, 1795-March 3, 1797); unsuccessful candidate for 1832; was graduated from Waterville (Maine) College in renomination in 1796; attorney general of Vermont in 1802 1859; during the Civil War entered the Union Army as and 1803; moved to Chelsea, Vt., about 1805; again a mem- captain of Company C, Thirteenth Regiment, Maine Volun- ber of the State house of representatives in 1806 and 1807; teer Infantry; appointed lieutenant colonel of the Ninety- resumed the practice of law in Chelsea, Vt., where he died first United States Colored Troops in August 1863; trans- August 16, 1816; interment in the Old Cemetery. ferred to the Fifty-first United States Colored Troops in October 1864; brevetted colonel of Volunteers for gallant BUCK, Daniel Azro Ashley (son of Daniel Buck), a Rep- conduct; mustered out of the service at Baton Rouge, La., resentative from Vermont; born in Norwich, Vt., April 19, in June 1866; delegate to the constitutional convention of 1789; moved with his parents to Chelsea; was graduated Alabama in 1867; clerk of the circuit court of Mobile County from Middlebury College in 1807 and from the United States in 1867 and 1868; elected as a Republican to the Forty- Military Academy at West Point in 1808; commissioned a first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); appointed lieutenant in the Engineer Corps of the United States Army president of the city council of Mobile in 1873; served as in the latter year; resigned in 1811 and studied law; ap- clerk of the United States circuit and district courts in At- pointed a second lieutenant in the Third Artillery in 1811; lanta, Ga., 1874-1889; United States marshal for the north- raised a volunteer company of rangers in 1813 and served ern district of Georgia 1889-1893; appointed Minister to until 1815; appointed a captain of the Thirty-first Infantry Japan by President William McKinley in April 1897 and in 1813; was honorably discharged June 15, 1815; was ad- served until his death in Tokyo, Japan, on December 4, mitted to the bar in 1814 and commenced the practice of 1902; interment in Arlington National Cemetery. law in Chelsea, Vt.; member of the State house of represent- Bibliography: Bhurtel, Shyam Krishna. ‘‘Alfred Eliab Buck: Carpet- atives 1816-1826, 1828-1830, and 1833-1835, and served as bagger in Alabama and Georgia.’’ Ph.D. diss., Auburn University, 1981. speaker of the house 1820-1822, 1825, 1826, and 1829; 734 Biographical Directory

State’s attorney for Orange County 1819-1822 and 1830- 4, 1885-March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for reelection 1834; elected to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823- in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress; resumed the practice of March 3, 1825); elected to the Twentieth Congress (March law in Hartford, Conn., where he died February 6, 1917; 4, 1827-March 3, 1829); unsuccessful candidate for renomi- interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery. nation in 1828; was a clerk in the War Department 1835- 1839; clerk in the Treasury Department in 1840; died in BUCKALEW, Charles Rollin, a Senator and a Rep- Washington, D.C., December 24, 1841; interment in the Con- resentative from Pennsylvania; born in Fishing Creek Town- gressional Cemetery. ship, Columbia County, Pa., December 28, 1821; graduated from Harford Academy, Susquehanna County, Pa.; studied BUCK, Ellsworth Brewer, a Representative from New law; admitted to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice York; born in Chicago, Ill., July 3, 1892; attended the public in Bloomsburg, Pa., in 1844; prosecuting attorney for Colum- schools in Chicago and Morgan Park (Ill.) Academy; was bia County 1845-1847; member, State senate 1850-1853; graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1914; commissioner to exchange ratifications of a treaty with Para- engaged in the chewing gum industry 1914-1917; enlisted guay in 1854; chairman of the Democratic State committee in the United States Naval Reserve on July 5, 1917; at- in 1857; member, State senate 1857-1858; appointed one tended Naval Aviation Ground School, Massachusetts Insti- of the commissioners to revise the penal code of the State tute of Technology; commissioned an ensign and assigned in 1857; Minister Resident to the Republic of Ecuador 1858- as instructor in meteorology and as custodian of meteorolog- 1861; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate ical instruments at the United States Naval Observatory, and served from March 4, 1863, to March 3, 1869; member, Washington, D.C., in 1918; moved to Staten Island, N.Y., State senate 1869; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in in 1919 and became associated with L.A. Dreyfus Co., serv- 1872; delegate to the constitutional convention of 1873; elect- ing as chairman of the board 1932-1957; chairman of the ed as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses Chewing Gum Code Authority, under N.R.A., in 1934 and (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); resumed the practice of his 1935; member of the board of education of New York City profession in Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pa., where he 1935-1944, serving as vice president, 1938-1942, and as died on May 19, 1899; interment in Rosemont Cemetery. president 1942-1944; elected as a Republican to the Seventy- Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ography; Hummel, William W. ‘‘Charles R. Buckalew: Democratic States- of James A. O’Leary; reelected to the Seventy-ninth and man in a Republican Era.’’ Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, Eightieth Congresses and served from June 6, 1944, to Janu- 1964; Buckalew, Charles R. Proportional Representation. Edited by John G. ary 3, 1949; was not a candidate for renomination in 1948; Freeze. Philadelphia: John Campbell Son., 1872. delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1952; BUCKBEE, John Theodore, a Representative from Illi- director, Office of Trade Investment and Monetary Affairs, nois; born on a farm near Rockford, Winnebago County, Foreign Operations Administration, in 1954; public advisor, Ill., August 1, 1871; attended the public schools of Rockford; United States delegation to United Nations Economic and studied agriculture and horticulture in Austria, France, Hol- Social Council, Geneva, Switzerland, in 1955; died at his land, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Italy, and Great Britain; summer home at Thunder Mountain Ranch, Township of established and engaged in a seed business in Rockford, Stephenson, Marinette County, Wis., August 14, 1970; cre- Ill.; elected as a Republican to the Seventieth and to the mated; ashes placed in Burial Stone at Thunder Mountain four succeeding Congresses; served from March 4, 1927, Ranch Cemetery. until his death in Rockford, Ill., April 23, 1936; was not BUCK, Frank Henry, a Representative from California; a candidate for renomination in 1936; interment in Green- born on a ranch near Vacaville, Solano County, Calif., Sep- wood Cemetery. tember 23, 1887; attended the public schools; was graduated BUCKINGHAM, William Alfred, a Senator from Con- from the University of California at Berkeley in 1908 and necticut; born in Lebanon, Conn., May 28, 1804; attended from the law department of Harvard University in 1911; the common schools and Bacon Academy, Colchester, Conn.; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced engaged in mercantile pursuits and in manufacturing; mayor practice in San Francisco, Calif.; fruit grower and farmer of Norwich, Conn. 1849-1850, 1856-1857; Governor of Con- at Vacaville, Calif.; also engaged in the lumber business necticut 1858-1866; resumed his former business pursuits; and in oil refining; delegate to the Democratic National Con- elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and ventions in 1928, 1936, and 1940; elected as a Democrat served from March 4, 1869, until his death in Norwich, to the Seventy-third and to the four succeeding Congresses Conn., February 5, 1875; chairman, Committee on Engrossed and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in Wash- Bills (Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses), Committee ington, D.C., September 17, 1942; interment in Vacaville- on Investigation and Retrenchment (Forty-second Congress), Elmira Cemetery, Vacaville, Calif. Committee on Indian Affairs (Forty-third Congress); inter- BUCK, John Ransom, a Representative from Con- ment in Yantic Cemetery, Norwich, Conn. necticut; born in Glastonbury, Hartford County, Conn., De- Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- cember 6, 1835; attended the common schools, Wilbraham ography; Buckingham, Samuel G. The Life of William A. Buckingham. (Mass.) Academy, and Wesleyan University, Middletown, Springfield: W.F. Adams Co., 1894; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 43rd Cong., 2nd sess., 1874-1875. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Conn.; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar Office, 1875. in 1862 and practiced in Hartford; assistant clerk of the State house of representatives in 1864 and clerk in 1865; BUCKLAND, Ralph Pomeroy, a Representative from clerk of the senate in 1866; president of the Hartford Court Ohio; born in Leyden, Mass., January 20, 1812; moved with of Common Council in 1868; city attorney 1871-1873; treas- his parents to Ravenna, Ohio, the same year; attended the urer of Hartford County 1873-1881; member of the State country schools, Tallmadge (Ohio) Academy, and Kenyon senate in 1880 and 1881; elected as a Republican to the College, Gambier, Ohio; studied law; was admitted to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); un- bar in 1837 and commenced practice in Fremont, Ohio; successful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty- mayor of Fremont 1843-1845; delegate to the Whig National eighth Congress; elected to the Forty-ninth Congress (March Convention in 1848; member of the State senate 1855-1859; Biographies 735

entered the Union Army as colonel of the Seventy-second December 4, 1906; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, New Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, January 10, 1862; com- York City. missioned brigadier general of Volunteers November 29, 1862; brevetted major general March 13, 1865; resigned from BUCKLEY, James Lane, a Senator from New York; born the Army January 6, 1865; elected as a Republican to the in New York City, March 9, 1923; received secondary edu- Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865-March cation at the Millbrook School, Millbrook, N.Y.; graduated 3, 1869); was not a candidate for renomination in 1868 to Yale University 1943 and received his law degree from the the Forty-first Congress; resumed the practice of law; dele- same university in 1949; enlisted in United States Navy gate to the Philadelphia Loyalists’ Convention in 1866 and in 1942 and was discharged with rank of lieutenant (jg.) to the Pittsburgh Soldiers’ Convention; delegate to the Re- in 1946; admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1950 and com- publican National Convention in 1876; Government director menced practice in New Haven; joined the Catawba Corp. of the Union Pacific Railroad 1877-1880; died in Fremont, of New York as a vice president and director 1953-1970; Sandusky County, Ohio, May 27, 1892; interment in Oak- elected as the candidate of the Conservative Party of New wood Cemetery. York State to the United States Senate in 1970, and served from January 3, 1971, to January 3, 1977; unsuccessful can- BUCKLER, Richard Thompson, a Representative from didate for reelection in 1976 and for election from Con- Minnesota; born on a farm near Oakland, Coles County, necticut in 1980; Under Secretary for Security, Science, and Ill., October 27, 1865; attended the public schools; engaged Technology, United States Department of State 1981-1982; in agricultural pursuits in Cole County, Ill.; moved to Ando- president, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc. 1982-1985; ver Township, Polk County, Minn., in 1904 and continued federal judge, United States Court of Appeals, District of agricultural pursuits; active in Farm Bureau and Farmers’ Columbia Circuit 1985-1996; is a resident of Sharon, Conn. Union organizations; held numerous township and local Bibliography: Buckley, James Lane. If Men Were Angels: A View From school district offices; served in the State senate 1915-1919, the Senate. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975. 1923-1927, and 1931-1933; elected on the Farmer-Labor tick- BUCKLEY, James Richard, a Representative from Illi- et to the Seventy-fourth and to the three succeeding Con- nois; born in Chicago, Ill., November 18, 1870; attended gresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1943); was not a can- the public and parochial schools and Christian Brothers’ didate for renomination in 1942; resumed agricultural pur- Commercial Academy; engaged in mercantile pursuits; per- suits; died in Crookston, Minn., January 23, 1950; interment mit clerk of the department of public works 1893-1897; dep- in Oakdale Cemetery. uty city gas inspector 1897-1910; unsuccessful Democratic BUCKLEY, Charles Anthony, a Representative from candidate for clerk of the supreme court of Cook County, New York; born in New York City, June 23, 1890; attended Ill., in 1908; member of the Chicago Board of Aldermen the public schools; contractor and builder in New York City 1910-1912; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions since 1914; member of the board of aldermen of New York in 1908, 1912 and 1916; chief deputy criminal court clerk City 1918-1923; State tax appraiser 1923-1929; chamberlain 1912-1918; manager of the State personal property tax col- of New York City 1929-1933; elected as a Democrat to the lection department 1918-1923; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses Sixty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); un- (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1965); chairman, Committee successful candidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth on Pensions (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses), Congress; vice president of the Universal Granite Quarries; Committee on Public Works (Eighty-second Congress and was serving as chief drain inspector at the time of his death Eighty-fourth through Eighty-eighth Congresses); unsuccess- in Chicago, Ill., on June 22, 1945; interment in Calvary ful candidate for renomination in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Cemetery, Evanston, Ill. Congress; died in New York City, January 22, 1967; inter- BUCKLEY, James Vincent, a Representative from Illi- ment in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y. nois; born on a farm in Saginaw County, Mich., May 15, 1894; attended the public schools of Saginaw County, Mich.; BUCKLEY, Charles Waldron, a Representative from moved to Chicago, Ill., at an early age and worked in the Alabama; born in Unadilla, Otsego County, N.Y., February automobile industry; engaged in the real estate and building 18, 1835; attended the public schools in Unadilla and Free- business in the Calumet region of Cook County, Ill., and port, Ill., where his parents moved in 1846; was graduated Lake County, Ind.; during the Second World War was active from Beloit College, Wisconsin, in 1860 and from the Union in war-plant production service and was elected president Theological Seminary in New York City in 1863; entered of Local Union 714, United Automobile Workers; elected as the Union Army February 9, 1864, and served as chaplain a Democrat to the Eighty-first Congress (January 3, 1949- of the Forty-seventh Regiment, United States Colored Volun- January 3, 1951); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in teer Infantry, and of the Eighth Regiment, Louisiana Col- 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress; engaged in the real ored Infantry, until January 5, 1866, when he was mustered estate and building business at Calumet City, Ill., from 1951 out; Alabama superintendent of education for the bureau until his death; died in Hammond, Ind., July 30, 1954; inter- of refugees and freedmen in 1866 and 1867 and resided ment in Calvary Cemetery, Gary, Ind. in Montgomery; delegate to the Alabama constitutional con- vention in 1867; engaged in agricultural pursuits, banking, BUCKMAN, Clarence Bennett, a Representative from the fire insurance business, and mining; upon the readmis- Minnesota; born in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pa., April sion of the State of Alabama to representation was elected 1, 1851; attended the public and normal schools; moved to as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress; reelected to the Minnesota in 1872 and settled in what is now known as Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses and served from Buckman; engaged in agricultural pursuits and in the lum- July 21, 1868, to March 3, 1873; was not a candidate for ber business; appointed justice of the peace in 1873; member renomination in 1872; probate judge of Montgomery County of the State house of representatives 1881-1883; served in 1874-1878; resumed banking and also engaged in the fire the State senate 1887-1891 and 1899-1903; elected as a Re- insurance business; postmaster of Montgomery 1881-1885, publican to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses 1890-1893, and 1897-1906; delegate to the Republican Na- (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1907); unsuccessful candidate for tional Convention in 1896; died in Montgomery, Ala., on renomination in 1906; deputy United States marshal 1912- 736 Biographical Directory

1917; resumed the lumber business in Little Falls, Morrison resentatives in 1813 and 1815; elected to the Eighteenth, County, Minn.; died in Battle Creek, Mich., March 1, 1917; Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1823- interment in Oakland Cemetery, Little Falls, Minn. March 3, 1829); chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims (Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses); unsuccessful BUCKNER, Alexander, a Senator from Missouri; born candidate for reelection in 1828 to the Twenty-first Con- in Jefferson County, Ky., in 1785; studied law; moved to gress; appointed associate judge of the court of appeals De- Charleston, Clark County, Ind., in 1812; moved to Missouri cember 31, 1831, but resigned shortly afterwards; unsuccess- in 1818 and settled near Jackson, Cape Girardeau County; ful candidate for Governor of Kentucky in 1832; again a practiced law and also engaged in agricultural pursuits; ap- member of the State house of representatives 1837-1839; pointed by the Territorial Governor as circuit attorney for presidential elector on the Harrison tickets in 1836 and the Cape Girardeau district; president of the State constitu- 1840; circuit judge in 1845; judge of the Court of Appeals tional convention in 1820; member, State senate 1822-1826; of Kentucky; died in Greensburg, Ky., December 8, 1847; elected to the United States Senate and served from March interment in the family graveyard at the ancestral home, 4, 1831, until his death due to cholera in Cape Girardeau ‘‘Buckner’s Hill.’’ County, Mo., June 6, 1833; interment on his farm in Cape Girardeau County; reinterment in City Cemetery, Cape BUDD, James Herbert, a Representative from Cali- Girardeau, Mo., in 1897. fornia; born in Janesville, Rock County, Wis., May 18, 1851; moved to California in 1859 with his parents, who settled BUCKNER, (nephew of Aylett Hawes and in Stockton; attended the public schools in Stockton and cousin of Richard Hawes and Albert Gallatin Hawes), a Rep- Brayton College, Oakland, in 1869; was graduated from the resentative from Missouri; born in Fredericksburg, Va., De- University of California at Berkeley in 1873; served as lieu- cember 14, 1816; attended Georgetown College, Washington, tenant colonel on the Governor’s staff in 1873 and 1874; D.C., and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; en- deputy district attorney in 1873 and 1874; studied law; was gaged in teaching for several years; moved to Palmyra, Mo., admitted to the bar in 1874 and commenced practice in in 1837; served as deputy sheriff; studied law; was admitted Stockton; served as first lieutenant in the California Na- to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice in Bowling tional Guard and was promoted to major of the line; elected Green, Mo.; became editor of the Salt River Journal; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883- clerk of the Pike County Court in 1841; moved to St. Louis, March 3, 1885); declined to be a candidate for reelection Mo., in 1850 and continued the practice of law; attorney in 1884; appointed police and fire commissioner of Stockton for the Bank of the State of Missouri in 1852; appointed in 1889; member of the board for drafting the city charter commissioner of public works in 1854 and served until 1855; in 1889; Governor of California 1894-1898; resumed the returned to Pike County and settled on a farm near Bowling practice of law in San Francisco; died in Stockton, Calif., Green; elected judge of the third judicial circuit in 1857; July 30, 1908; interment in Rural Cemetery. delegate to the convention held in Washington, D.C., in 1861 Bibliography: Peterson, Eric Falk. ‘‘The End of an Era: California’s in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; Gubernatorial Election of 1894.’’ Pacific Historical Review 38 (May 1969): moved to St. Charles, Mo., in 1862 and became interested 141-56. in the manufacture of tobacco in St. Louis; also engaged in mercantile pursuits; moved to Mexico, Audrain County; BUDGE, Hamer Harold, a Representative from Idaho; member of the Democratic central committee in 1868; dele- born in Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho, November 21, gate to the Democratic National Convention in 1872; elected 1910; attended the public schools of Boise, Idaho, and the as a Democrat to the Forty-third and to the five succeeding College of Idaho at Caldwell 1928-1930; graduated from Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1885); chairman, Com- Stanford University in 1933; graduated from the law school mittee on District of Columbia (Forty-fourth Congress), Com- of the University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, 1936; lawyer, mittee on Banking and Currency (Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, private practice; member of the Idaho state house of rep- and Forty-eighth Congresses); declined to be a candidate resentatives, 1939-1941, and 1949; United States Navy, for reelection in 1884 and retired from public life; died in 1942-1945; United States Naval Reserve; elected as a Repub- Mexico, Mo., February 5, 1894; interment in Elmwood Ceme- lican to the Eighty-second and to the four succeeding Con- tery. gresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1961); unsuccessful can- didate for reelection to the Eighty-seventh Congress in 1960; BUCKNER, Aylette (son of Richard Aylett Buckner), a judge of the Third Judicial District of Idaho, 1961-1964; Representative from Kentucky; born in Greensburg, Green appointed to the Securities and Exchange Commission by County, Ky., July 21, 1806; attended the New Athens Semi- President Johnson in 1964, became chairman in 1969, and nary; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced served until his resignation, January 2, 1971; president, mu- practice in Greensburg; member of the State house of rep- tual funds group in Minneapolis, Minn., until 1978; died resentatives in 1842 and 1843; elected as a Whig to the on July 22, 2003, in Scottsdale, Ariz.; interment in Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); unsuc- Cloverdale Cemetery, Boise, Idaho. cessful candidate in 1848 for reelection to the Thirty-first Congress; moved to St. Louis, Mo., and continued the prac- BUECHNER, John William (Jack), a Representative tice of his profession; returned to Lexington, Ky., in 1864, from Missouri; born in Kirkwood, Mo., June 4, 1940; at- where he died July 3, 1869; interment in Lexington Ceme- tended parochial schools; A.B., Benedictine College, Atch- tery. ison, Kans., 1962; J.D., St. Louis University Law School, St. Louis, Mo.,1965; admitted to the Missouri State bar in BUCKNER, Richard Aylett (father of Aylette Buckner), 1965 and commenced practice in St. Louis County; real es- a Representative from Kentucky; born in Fauquier County, tate developer; member, Missouri house of representatives, Va., July 16, 1763; received a liberal education; moved to 1972-1982; delegate to the Republican National Conventions, Green County, Ky., in 1803; studied law; was admitted to 1964, 1980, 1988; elected as a Republican to the One Hun- the bar; taught school; moved to Greensburg in 1811 and dredth and One Hundred First Congresses (January 3, 1987- practiced law; county attorney and Commonwealth’s attor- January 3, 1991); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in ney of Green County; member of the State house of rep- 1990 to the One Hundred Second Congress; president, Na- Biographies 737

tional Republican Institute for International Affairs; is a succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1863); chair- resident of St. Louis, Mo. man, Committee on Accounts (Thirty-seventh Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Thirty-seventh Congress); BUEL, Alexander Woodruff, a Representative from was not a candidate for renomination in 1862; was mustered Michigan; born in Castleton, Vt., December 13, 1813; at- into the service April 24, 1861, and was discharged June tended the public schools in Poultney, Vt., and was grad- 15, 1861; special agent of the United States Treasury and uated from Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1830; taught internal revenue collector for the district of Massachusetts school and studied law; moved to Detroit, Mich., in 1834; 1867-1869; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first and was admitted to the bar in 1835 and commenced practice to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March in Detroit, Mich.; city attorney in 1837; member of the State 4, 1869, until his death in Fall River, Mass., March 7, 1875; house of representatives in 1838 and 1848, serving as speak- chairman, Committee on Accounts (Forty-second and Forty- er the latter year; prosecuting attorney for Wayne County third Congresses); interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. 1843-1846; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first Con- gress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); unsuccessful candidate BUFFUM, Joseph, Jr., a Representative from New for reelection in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress; re- Hampshire; born in Fitchburg, Mass., September 23, 1784; sumed the practice of law; again a member of the State attended the public schools and the local academy; was grad- house of representatives, in 1859 and 1860; appointed post- uated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1806; master of Detroit on September 28, 1860, and served until studied law and practiced in Westmoreland and Keene, March 18, 1861; died in Detroit, Mich., April 19, 1868; inter- N.H.; elected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819- ment in Elmwood Cemetery. March 3, 1821); appointed judge of the court of common pleas on January 21, 1825; engaged in agricultural pursuits; BUELL, Alexander Hamilton, a Representative from died in Westmoreland, Cheshire County, N.H., February 24, New York; born in Fairfield, Herkimer County, N.Y., July 1874; interment in South Village Cemetery. 14, 1801; attended the district schools and Fairfield Acad- emy; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Fairfield, N.Y., and BUGG, Robert Malone, a Representative from Ten- maintained general stores in other cities; served as a mem- nessee; born in Boydton, Mecklenburg County, Va., January ber of the State assembly in 1845; elected as a Democrat 20, 1805; attended the public schools; moved to Tennessee to the Thirty-second Congress and served from March 4, and settled in Williamson County in 1825, where he taught 1851, until his death in Washington, D.C., on January 29, school for several years; moved to Giles County and engaged 1853; interment in the Episcopal Cemetery, Fairfield, N.Y. in agricultural pursuits; justice of the peace in 1840; mem- ber of the State house of representatives in 1851 and 1852; BUFFETT, Howard Homan, a Representative from Ne- elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, braska; born in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebr., August 13, 1853-March 3, 1855); declined to be a candidate for renomi- 1903; attended the public schools, and was graduated from nation in 1854; resumed agricultural pursuits; served in the the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1925; engaged in State senate in 1871 and 1872; died in Lynnville, Giles the investment business in 1926; member of the Omaha County, Tenn., February 18, 1887; interment in McLaurine Board of Education 1939-1942; elected as a Republican to Cemetery, near Lynnville, Tenn. the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate BULKELEY, Morgan Gardner (cousin of Edwin for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; elected Denison Morgan), a Senator from Connecticut; born in East to the Eighty-second Congress (January 3, 1951-January 3, Haddam, Middlesex County, Conn., December 26, 1837; at- 1953); was not a candidate for renomination in 1952; re- tended the district schools; moved with his parents to Hart- sumed former business pursuits; was a resident of Omaha, ford, Conn., in 1846; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Nebr., until his death there on April 30, 1964; interment Brooklyn, N.Y. 1852-1872; member of the Republican gen- in Forest Lawn Memorial Park. eral committee of Kings County; during the Civil War en- listed in the Thirteenth Regiment, New York National BUFFINGTON, Joseph, a Representative from Pennsyl- Guard, and served at Baltimore and at Suffolk, Va.; re- vania; born in West Chester, Pa., November 27, 1803; at- turned to Hartford, Conn., in 1872; engaged in the life insur- tended the common schools and Western University, Pitts- ance business and served as president of the Aetna Life burgh, Pa.; moved to Butler County, Pa., and edited a week- Insurance Co.; served in the Hartford city council in 1874; ly newspaper; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1826 member of the board of aldermen in 1875 and 1876; first and commenced practice in Butler; moved to Kittanning, president of the National League of Professional Baseball Pa., in 1827 and continued the practice of law; elected as Clubs in 1876; mayor of Hartford 1880-1888; Governor of a Whig to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses Connecticut 1889-1893; elected commander of the Depart- (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847); was not a candidate for ment of Connecticut, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1903; renomination in 1846; appointed president judge of the elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and eighteenth district in 1849 and served until 1851; declined served from March 4, 1905, to March 3, 1911; unsuccessful the appointment as chief justice of the Territory of Utah candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee to Examine tendered by President Fillmore in 1852; judge of the tenth Branches of the Civil Service (Fifty-ninth Congress), Com- district of Pennsylvania from 1855 until his retirement in mittee on Railroads (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses); 1871; died in Kittanning, Pa., February 3, 1872; interment resumed his former business pursuits; died in Hartford, in Kittanning Cemetery. Conn., on November 6, 1922; interment in Cedar Hill Ceme- tery. BUFFINTON, James, a Representative from Massachu- Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- setts; born in Fall River, Mass., March 16, 1817; attended ography. the common schools, and Friends College, Providence, R.I.; studied medicine but never practiced; engaged in mercantile BULKLEY, Robert Johns, a Representative and a Sen- pursuits in Fall River; mayor of Fall River in 1854 and ator from Ohio; born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1855; elected as a candidate of the American Party to the October 8, 1880; attended the University School, Cleveland, Thirty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to the three Ohio, and graduated from Harvard University in 1902; stud- 738 Biographical Directory

ied at Harvard Law School; admitted to the bar in 1906 of law; appointed district judge in 1822, but resigned after and commenced practice in Cleveland, Ohio; elected as a a few years’ service, returning to the bench later for another Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses period of service; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twen- (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1915); during the First World War ty-second and Twenty-third Congresses and served from served as chief of the legal section of the War Industries March 4, 1831, until January 4, 1834, when he resigned, Board 1917-1918; resumed the practice of law; elected as having been appointed judge; judge of the supreme court a Democrat to the United States Senate on November 4, of Louisiana from 1834 to 1846; acted as secretary of state 1930, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Theodore of Louisiana in 1839; resumed the practice of law in New E. Burton; reelected in 1932 and served from December Orleans, La.; appointed professor of civil law in the Law 1, 1930, to January 3, 1939; unsuccessful candidate for re- School of Louisiana in 1847; served as a member of the election in 1938; chairman, Committee on Manufactures State house of representatives in 1850; elected as a Whig (Seventy-third through Seventy-fifth Congresses); engaged to the Thirty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by in banking; resumed the practice of law; during the Second the resignation of Charles M. Conrad and served from De- World War served as a member of the board of appeals cember 5, 1850, to March 3, 1851; died in New Orleans in visa cases; died in Cleveland, Ohio, July 21, 1965; inter- on April 17, 1851; interment in Girod Street Cemetery. ment in Lakeview Cemetery. Bibliography: Bonquois, Dora J. ‘‘The Career of Henry Adams Bullard, Bibliography: Jenkins, William D. ‘‘Robert Bulkley: Progressive Profile.’’ Louisiana Jurist, Legislator, and Educator.’’ Louisiana Historical Quar- Ph.D. dissertation, Case Western Reserve, 1969; Stegh, Leslie J. ‘‘A Par- terly23 (October 1940): 999-1106. adox of Prohibition: Election of Robert J. Bulkley as Senator from Ohio, 1930.’’ Ohio History 83 (Summer 1974): 57-72. BULLOCH, Archibald (father of William Bellinger Bulloch and great-great-grandfather of Theodore Roosevelt), BULL, John, a Representative from Missouri; born in a Delegate from Georgia; born in Charleston, S.C., about Virginia in 1803; studied medicine in Baltimore, Md.; moved 1730; completed preparatory studies; studied law, was ad- to Howard County, Mo., and settled near Glasgow; engaged mitted to the bar and practiced; commissioned lieutenant in the practice of medicine; studied theology; was ordained in a South Carolina regiment in 1757; moved to Savannah, to the ministry and became a Methodist minister in that Ga., about 1762; appointed a member of the committee to locality; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Missouri; correspond with Benjamin Franklin for redress of grievances presidential elector on the ticket of Jackson and Calhoun in 1768 and of the committee to sympathize with the citizens in 1828; elected to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, of Boston; elected speaker of the Georgia Royal assembly 1833-March 3, 1835); resumed his ministerial duties and in 1772; president of the Georgia provincial congress in 1775 also the practice of medicine; died near Rothville, Chariton and 1776; Member of the Continental Congress in 1775; County, Mo., in February 1863; interment in Hutcheson led a company to clear Tybee Island of the enemy; elected Cemetery, a family burial ground, near Rothville, Mo. by the provincial congress president and commander in chief of Georgia and served from June 20, 1776, to February BULL, John, a Delegate from South Carolina; born in 5, 1777, when the State government was adopted; signed Prince William’s Parish, South Carolina, about 1740; justice the first constitution of Georgia; died in Savannah, Ga., of the peace of Greenville County; member of the Provincial February 22, 1777; interment in Colonial Cemetery. house of commons in 1772; deputy secretary of the Province Bibliography: Bulloch, Joseph Gaston Baillie. A Biographical Sketch of in 1772; delegate to the First and Second provincial con- Hon. Archibald Bulloch. [n.p., 190-?]. gresses in 1775 and 1776; member of the first general as- sembly in 1776; served in the State house of representatives BULLOCH, William Bellinger (son of Archibald 1778-1781 and in 1784; Member of the Continental Congress Bulloch), a Senator from Georgia; born in Savannah, Ga., 1784-1787; served in the State senate in 1798; died in South in 1777; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced Carolina in 1802; interment in Prince William’s Parish practice in Savannah in 1797; appointed United States dis- Churchyard, Beaufort County, S.C. trict attorney in 1804; mayor of Savannah in 1812 and alder- man in 1814; during the War of 1812 served in the Savan- BULL, Melville, a Representative from Rhode Island; nah Heavy Artillery; solicitor general of the State; collector born in Newport, R.I., September 29, 1854; attended Phillips of customs 1849-1850; member, State house of representa- Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., and was graduated from tives; member, State senate; appointed as a Democratic Re- Harvard University in 1877; engaged in agricultural pur- publican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy suits near Newport; member of the State house of represent- caused by the resignation of William H. Crawford and atives 1883-1885; served in the State senate 1885-1892; served from April 8, 1813, until November 6, 1813, when member of the Republican State central committee; delegate a successor was elected; one of the founders of the State to the Republican National Convention in 1888; Lieutenant Bank of Georgia and served as its president 1816-1843; died Governor of Rhode Island 1892-1894; elected as a Republican in Savannah, Ga., May 6, 1852; interment in Laurel Grove to the Fifty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses Cemetery. (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1903); chairman, Committee on Bibliography: Mellichamp, Josephine. ‘‘William Bulloch.’’ In Senators Accounts (Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses); unsuc- From Georgia, pp. 70-71. Huntsville, Alabama: Strode Publishers, 1976. cessful candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress; lived in Middletown, Newport County, R.I., until BULLOCK, Robert, a Representative from Florida; born his death July 5, 1909; interment in Island Cemetery, New- in Greenville, Pitt County, N.C., December 8, 1828; attended port, R.I. the common schools; moved to Florida in 1844 and settled at Fort King, then a United States Government post, near BULLARD, Henry Adams, a Representative from Lou- the present city of Ocala; taught in the first school in Sum- isiana; born in Pepperell, Mass., September 9, 1788; was ter County; clerk of the circuit court of Marion County from graduated from Harvard University in 1807; studied law November 13, 1849, to November 11, 1855; commissioned in Boston and Philadelphia; was admitted to the bar about by the Governor in 1856 a captain to raise a mounted com- 1812; accompanied Gen. Jose´ A´ lvarez Toledo as military sec- pany of volunteers for the suppression of Indian hostilities; retary on his revolutionary expedition into Texas in 1813; the company was mustered into the service of the United moved to Natchitoches, La., and commenced the practice States and served eighteen months, until the cessation of Biographies 739

hostilities; entered the Confederate Army as captain in the sion, American Expeditionary Forces; elected as a Democrat Seventh Regiment Florida Volunteers in 1862 and served to the Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses until the close of the war; promoted to lieutenant colonel (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1929); unsuccessful candidate for in 1863 and to brigadier general in 1865; studied law; was reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress; elected to admitted to the bar in 1866 and began practice in Marion the Seventy-second and to the nine succeeding Congresses County; judge of probate court 1866-1868; member of the and served from March 4, 1931, until his death; chairman, State house of representatives in 1879; again clerk of the Committee on Memorials (Seventy-sixth Congress); delegate circuit court of Marion County from 1881 to 1889; elected to the International Aviation Conference at Chicago, Ill., as a Democrat to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses in 1944; United States adviser, International Civil Aviation (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1893); was not a candidate for Organization at Montreal, Canada, and Geneva, Switzer- renomination in 1892; engaged in agricultural pursuits; land, in 1947; died in Gastonia, N.C., August 31, 1950; inter- elected judge of Marion County in 1903 and served until ment in Oakwood Cemetery. his death in Ocala, Marion County, Fla., July 27, 1905; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. BUMPERS, Dale, a Senator from Arkansas; born in Charleston, Franklin County, Ark., August 12, 1925; at- BULLOCK, Stephen, a Representative from Massachu- tended the public schools of Arkansas and the University setts; born in Rehoboth, Mass., October 10, 1735; attended of Arkansas, Fayetteville; graduated, Northwestern Univer- the common schools; taught school; during the Revolutionary sity Law School, Chicago, Ill., 1951; admitted to the Arkan- War was captain of the Sixth Company in Col. Thomas sas bar in 1952 and commenced practice in Charleston; Carpenter’s Regiment, and was in the Battle of Rhode Island served in the United States Marine Corps 1943-1946; in 1778; delegate to the first State constitutional convention Charleston city attorney 1952-1970; special justice, Arkansas in 1780; member of the State house of representatives in Supreme Court 1968; Governor of Arkansas 1970-1974; 1783, 1785, 1786, 1795, and 1796; elected as a Federalist elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1974 to the Fifth Congress (March 4, 1797-March 3, 1799); judge for the term commencing January 3, 1975; reelected in 1980, of the court of common pleas for Bristol County; member 1986, and again in 1992 for the term ending January 3, of the Governor’s council 1803-1805; died in Rehoboth, Bris- 1999; was not a candidate for reelection in 1998; chairman, tol County, Mass., February 2, 1816; interment in Burial Committee on Small Business (One Hundredth through One Place Hill. Hundred Third Congresses). Bibliography: Bumpers, Dale. The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town: BULLOCK, Wingfield, a Representative from Kentucky; A Memoir. New York: Random House, 2003. born in Spotsylvania, Va., birth date unknown; studied law; moved to Kentucky; member of the Kentucky state senate BUNCH, Samuel, a Representative from Tennessee; born from Shelby County, 1812-1814; elected to the Seventeenth in Grainger County, Tenn., December 4, 1786; attended the Congress (March 4, 1821-October 13, 1821); died on October public schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; served in 13, 1821, in Shelbyville, Shelby County, Ky.; interment in the Creek War as captain of a company of mounted riflemen an old burying ground near Shelbyville. under General Jackson and participated in the attack on Hillibeetown November 18, 1813; sheriff of Grainger County BULOW, William John, a Senator from South Dakota; for several years; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty- born on a farm near Moscow, Clermont County, Ohio, Janu- third Congress and reelected as a White supporter to the ary 13, 1869; attended the public schools in Moscow, Ohio, Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); re- and graduated from the law department of the University sumed agricultural pursuits; died on his farm near Rutledge, of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1893; admitted to the bar Grainger County, Tenn., September 5, 1849; interment in the same year and commenced practice in Beresford, Union a private cemetery on his farm near Rutledge. County, S.Dak., in 1894; member, State senate 1899; served as city attorney of Beresford, S.Dak., 1902-1912 and 1913- BUNDY, Hezekiah Sanford, a Representative from 1927; mayor of Beresford 1912-1913; county judge of Union Ohio; born in Marietta, Ohio, August 15, 1817; moved with County, S.Dak., 1918; Governor of South Dakota 1927-1931; his parents to Athens County in 1819; attended the public elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1930; schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; studied law; was reelected in 1936 and served from March 4, 1931, to January admitted to the bar in 1850 and practiced until 1860, when 3, 1943; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1942; he became engaged in the iron business; member of the chairman, Committee on the Civil Service (Seventy-third State house of representatives in 1848 and 1850; served through Seventy-seventh Congresses); retired and resided in the State senate in 1855; unsuccessful candidate for elec- in Washington, D.C., until his death there on February 26, tion in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress; elected as a 1960; interment in St. John’s Catholic Cemetery, Beresford, Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1865- S.Dak. March 3, 1867); declined to be a candidate for renomination Bibliography: Pressler, Larry. ″William J. Bulow.’’ In U.S. Senators in 1866; elected to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873- from the Prairie, pp. 97-106. Vermillion, SD: Dakota Press, 1982. March 3, 1875); chairman, Committee on Mileage (Forty- third Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in BULWINKLE, Alfred Lee, a Representative from North 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; moved to Wellston, Jack- Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., April 21, 1883; moved son County, in 1887 and resumed the practice of law; elected with his parents to Dallas, N.C., in 1891; attended the com- to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by mon schools; studied law at the University of North Carolina the death of William H. Enochs and served from December at Chapel Hill; was admitted to the bar in 1904 and com- 4, 1893, to March 3, 1895; died in Wellston, Jackson County, menced practice in Dallas, Gaston County, N.C.; prosecuting Ohio, December 12, 1895; interment in the City Cemetery. attorney for the municipal court of Gastonia 1913-1916; cap- tain in Company B, First Infantry, North Carolina National BUNDY, Solomon, a Representative from New York; Guard, 1909-1917; served on the Mexican border in 1916 born in Oxford, Chenango County, N.Y., May 22, 1823; at- and 1917; during the First World War served as a major tended the common schools and Oxford (N.Y.) Academy; in command of the Second Battalion, One Hundred and taught school for several years; engaged in mercantile pur- Thirteenth Field Artillery, Fifty-fifth Brigade, Thirtieth Divi- suits; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859 and 740 Biographical Directory

commenced practice in Oxford; while studying law served as quartermaster sergeant of his regiment during the penin- as justice of the peace and clerk of the Board of Supervisors sular campaign under General McClellan; discharged from of Chenango County; district attorney of Chenango County the service April 2, 1863, on a surgeon’s certificate of dis- 1862-1865; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Con- ability; engaged in mercantile pursuits 1864-1869; moved gress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); was not a candidate to Tunkhannock and engaged in agricultural pursuits and for renomination in 1878; resumed the practice of law; died in banking; unsuccessful candidate for nomination in 1872 in Oxford, N.Y., January 13, 1889; interment in Riverview to the Forty-third Congress; subsequently elected to the Cemetery. Forty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the res- ignation of Ulysses Mercur and served from December 24, BUNKER, Berkeley Lloyd, a Senator and a Representa- 1872, to March 3, 1873; president of the Wyoming County tive from Nevada; born in what was then St. Thomas, Clark Agricultural Society for over twenty years; elected burgess County, Nev., August 12, 1906; attended the public schools; and borough treasurer of Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, engaged in the tire and oil business in Las Vegas, Nev., in 1884; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth and in 1934; member, State assembly 1936-1941, serving as Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889); was not speaker in 1939; appointed on November 27, 1940, as a a candidate for renomination in 1888; died in Philadelphia, Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy Pa., September 11, 1911; interment in Gravel Hill Cemetery, caused by the death of Key Pittman for the term ending Tunkhannock, Pa. January 3, 1941, and also for the term ending January 3, 1947, and served from November 27, 1940, until Decem- BUNNER, Rudolph, a Representative from New York; ber 6, 1942, when a duly elected successor qualified; unsuc- born in Savannah, Wayne County, N.Y., August 17, 1779; cessful candidate for nomination in 1942 for the vacancy; was graduated from Columbia College, at New York City, engaged in the life-insurance business in Las Vegas, Nev.; in 1798; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress (Janu- in Newburgh, Orange County, N.Y., from 1819 until 1822; ary 3, 1945-January 3, 1947); was not a candidate for re- moved to Oswego, Oswego County, N.Y., in October 1822; nomination in 1946; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for engaged in manufacturing and served as a director in the election to the United States Senate in 1946; investment Oswego Cloth & Carpet Manufacturing Co.; also was an broker and president of a management and equity company; extensive landowner; member of the first board of directors was a resident of Las Vegas, Nevada until his death on of the Oswego Canal Co.; elected to the Twentieth Congress January 21, 1999; interment in Bunkers Eden Vale Ceme- (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1829); died in Oswego, N.Y., July tery. 16, 1837; interment in Riverside Cemetery. BUNN, Benjamin Hickman, a Representative from BUNNING, James Paul David, a Representative and North Carolina; born on a farm in Nash County, near Rocky Senator from Kentucky; born in Southgate, Ky., October 23, Mount, N.C., October 19, 1844; attended the local schools; 1931; attended parochial schools in Southgate and Cin- during the Civil War enlisted in the Confederate Army as cinnati, Ohio; B.S., Xavier University, Cincinnati 1953; pro- a second lieutenant in Company A, Forty-seventh North fessional baseball player 1950-1971; investment broker and Carolina Regiment; promoted successively and became cap- agent; member, Ft. Thomas City Council 1977-1979; Ken- tain of the Fourth Company of Sharpshooters, MacRae’s bri- tucky State senate 1979-1983; elected as a Republican to gade, Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865; studied law; the One Hundredth and to the five succeeding Congresses was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice (January 3, 1987-January 3, 1999); not a candidate for re- in Rocky Mount, N.C.; elected mayor of Rocky Mount in election to the House of Representatives in 1998, but was 1867; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1875 elected to the United States Senate in 1998; reelected in and to the Democratic National Convention in 1880; member 2004 for term ending January 3, 2011. of the State house of representatives 1883-1885; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third BUNTING, Thomas Lathrop, a Representative from Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1895); chairman, Com- New York; born in Eden, Erie County, N.Y., April 24, 1844; mittee on Claims (Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses); was educated in the common schools and the Griffith Insti- was not a candidate for renomination in 1894; postmaster tute, Springville, N.Y.; taught school in winters and at- of Rocky Mount, N.C., from April 23, 1895, until the appoint- tended the academy in summer months; illness having inter- ment of his successor on July 27, 1897; resumed the practice rupted his preparation for college, he moved to Hamburg, of law; died in Nash County, near Rocky Mount, N.C., Au- N.Y., in 1868 and later established a general mercantile gust 25, 1907; interment in Pineview Cemetery. store; engaged in the canning business; elected as a Demo- crat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, BUNN, Jim, a Representative from Oregon; born in 1893); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1892; McMinniville, Oreg., December 12, 1956; graduated Dayton resumed the canning business and also became interested Union High School; A.A., Chemeketa Community College, in farming, dairying, and stock raising; died in Buffalo, N.Y., 1977; B.A., NW Nazarene College, 1979; 2nd lieutenant, Or- December 27, 1898; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery egon National Guard Reserve; member, State senate, 1987- at Hamburg, Erie County, N.Y. 1995, GOP whip 1990-1995; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Fourth Congress (January 3, 1995-January BURCH, John Chilton, a Representative from Cali- 3, 1997); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to fornia; born in Boone County, Mo., February 1, 1826; at- the One Hundred Fifth Congress. tended the Bonne Femme Academy and Kemper College; studied law in Jefferson City; was admitted to the bar and BUNNELL, Frank Charles, a Representative from practiced; deputy clerk of Cole County; assistant adjutant Pennsylvania; born in Washington Township, Luzerne Coun- general of Missouri; moved to California in 1850 and worked ty, Pa., March 19, 1842; attended the district rural school in the mines until 1851; elected clerk of the newly organized and Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa., until he enlisted Trinity County; appointed district attorney in 1853; member as a private in Company B, Fifty-second Regiment, Pennsyl- of the State assembly in 1856; served in the State senate vania Volunteers, in September 1861; promoted and served 1857-1859; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Con- Biographies 741

gress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); resumed the practice St. Francis Xavier High School in New York City and Niag- of law in San Francisco; appointed a code commissioner ara University, Niagara Falls, N.Y., A.B.; auctioneer, ap- and served four years; declined to be a candidate for judge praiser, and also interested in the insurance business in of the supreme court of California; died in San Francisco, New York City after 1900; member of the State assembly Calif., August 31, 1885; interment in the City Cemetery, 1919-1924; served in the State senate 1924-1938; appointed Sacramento, Calif. a member of the New York World’s Fair Commission in 1938; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth Congress BURCH, Thomas Granville, a Representative and a (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1945); was not a candidate Senator from Virginia; born on a farm near Dyer’s Store, for renomination in 1944; resumed his former business pur- in Henry County, Va., July 3, 1869; attended the public schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits and in the tobacco suits in New York City; consultant; alien property custodian; manufacturing business; moved to Martinsville, Va., in 1886 died in New York City March 28, 1960; interment in Gate and engaged in the banking business; also interested in of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y. the insurance and real estate businesses; member of the BURD, George, a Representative from Pennsylvania; State board of agriculture 1910-1913; mayor of Martinsville, born in 1793; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1810 Va. 1912-1914; United States marshal for the western dis- at Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa., and practiced; elected trict of Virginia 1914-1921; member of the commission in to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses (March 1927 to simplify and reorganize the State government; 4, 1831-March 3, 1835); moved to Mercer County in 1843; served with the State transportation and public utility advi- died in Bedford, Bedford County, Pa., on January 13, 1844; sory commission in 1929; member of the State board of interment in Bedford Cemetery. education in 1930 and 1931; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress and to the seven succeeding Con- BURDETT, Samuel Swinfin, a Representative from gresses and served from March 4, 1931, to May 31, 1946, Missouri; born at Sutton-in-the-Elms, Leicestershire, Eng- when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Post Office and land, February 21, 1836; when twelve years of age immi- Post Roads (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses); grated to the United States; worked on a farm in Lorain appointed on May 31, 1946, to the United States Senate County, Ohio, and attended the common schools; studied to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Carter Glass law at Oberlin College, Ohio, was admitted to the bar in and served from May 31, 1946, until November 5, 1946, 1858 and commenced practice in Dewitt, Iowa; entered the when a duly elected successor qualified; was not a candidate Union Army as a private in the First Regiment, Iowa Volun- for election to the vacancy in 1946; chairman of Governor’s teer Cavalry, in May 1861; promoted to the rank of lieuten- Commission on Reorganization of the State Government in ant, later becoming captain, and served until August 1864; 1947; resumed his business pursuits; died in Martinsville, assistant provost marshal general from March 1, 1864-Au- Va., March 20, 1951; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. gust 1, 1864; moved to Osceola, St. Clair County, Mo., in BURCHARD, Horatio Chapin, a Representative from December 1865; attorney for the seventh circuit in 1868 Illinois; born in Marshall, Oneida County, N.Y., September and 1869; delegate to the Republican National Convention 22, 1825; attended the public schools and private pre- in 1868; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first and Forty- paratory schools; was graduated from Hamilton College, second Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1873); chair- Clinton, N.Y., in 1850; studied law; was admitted to the man, Committee on Manufactures (Forty-second Congress); bar in 1854 and commenced practice in Freeport, Ill.; mem- unsuccessful candidate in 1872 for reelection to the Forty- ber of the State house of representatives 1863-1866; elected third Congress; resumed the practice of law in Osceola, Mo.; as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress to fill the va- appointed Commissioner of the General Land Office in 1874; cancy caused by the resignation of Elihu B. Washburne; engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C., residing reelected to the Forty-second and to the three succeeding at Glencarlyn, Va., during his last years; commander in Congresses and served from December 6, 1869, to March chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, 1885-1886; died 3, 1879; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1878; at Sutton-in-the-Elms, Leicestershire, England, September director of the United States Mint 1879-1885; resumed the 24, 1914; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arling- practice of law in Freeport, Ill.; member of the commission ton, Va. to revise the State revenue laws in 1885 and 1886; was placed in charge of the jury of awards of the mining depart- BURDICK, Clark, a Representative from Rhode Island; ment of the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago in born in Newport, R.I., January 13, 1868; attended the public 1893; died in Freeport, Ill., May 14, 1908; interment in schools; was a student at the Harvard Law School 1893- Oakland Cemetery. 1895; was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced prac- tice in Newport; also interested in banking and served as BURCHARD, Samuel Dickinson, a Representative from president of the Newport Trust Co.; member of the First Wisconsin; born in Leyden, N.Y., July 17, 1836; moved with Division, Rhode Island Naval Militia, in 1896 and 1897; his father to Beaver Dam, Wis., in 1845; attended Madison member of the city school board 1899-1901; city solicitor (now Colgate) University, Hamilton, N.Y.; engaged in the of Newport in 1901, 1902, and again in 1907 and 1908; wool manufacturing business in Beaver Dam; during the member of the State house of representatives 1906-1908; Civil War entered the Union Army as a lieutenant in the delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1912; Missouri Militia; appointed assistant quartermaster of member of the Newport representative council 1906-1916, United States Volunteers with the rank of captain; was sta- serving as chairman; served in the State senate in 1915 tioned at New York; was mustered out with the rank of and 1916; awarded the third class order of the Sacred Treas- major; member of the Wisconsin senate 1872-1874; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875- ury of Japan for services rendered the representatives of March 3, 1877); engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in the Emperor of Japan in 1917; mayor of Newport in 1917 Greenwood, Wise County, Tex., September 1, 1901; inter- and 1918; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and ment in Greenwood Cemetery. to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the BURCHILL, Thomas Francis, a Representative from Seventy-third Congress; reengaged in the practice of law New York; born in New York City August 3, 1882; attended and also in his banking interests in Newport, R.I., until 742 Biographical Directory

his death on August 27, 1948; interment in St. Mary’s Epis- ted to the bar in 1904 and commenced practice in Munich, copal Cemetery, Portsmouth, R.I. N.Dak.; member of the State house of representatives 1907- 1911, serving as speaker in 1909; moved to Williston, BURDICK, Jocelyn Birch (wife of Quentin Northrup N.Dak., in 1910 and continued the practice of law; Lieuten- Burdick, daughter-in-law of Usher L. Burdick), a Senator ant Governor 1911-1913; State’s attorney of Williams County from North Dakota; born in Fargo, N. Dak., February 6, 1913-1915; assistant United States district attorney for 1922; graduated from Fargo Central High School, 1939; at- North Dakota 1929-1932; unsuccessful candidate for the Re- tended Principia College, Elsah, Ill., and graduated from publican nomination to the Seventy-third Congress in 1932; Northwestern University in 1943; worked as a radio an- also engaged in livestock breeding and farming; author; nouncer in Moorhead, Minn.; while a member of the North elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fourth and to the Dakota Democratic Non-Partisan League, worked as a vol- four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, unteer in the 1964, 1970, 1976, and 1982 Senate reelection 1945); was not a candidate for renomination in 1944, but campaigns of Quentin Northrup Burdick; appointed as a was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomina- Democrat to the United States Senate on September 12, tion for United States Senator; unsuccessful Independent 1992, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, candidate for election in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; Quentin Northrop Burdick; took the oath of office on Sep- elected to the Eighty-first and to the four succeeding Con- tember 16, 1992, and served until December 14, 1992, a gresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1959); was not a can- successor having been chosen in a special election; not a candidate for reelection; is a resident of Fargo, N. Dak. didate for renomination in 1958; died in Washington, D.C., August 19, 1960; interment on his ranch at Williston, BURDICK, Quentin Northrup (son of Usher L. Burdick, N.Dak. husband of Jocelyn Birch Burdick), a Representative and Bibliography: Blackorby, Edward Converse. Prairie Populist: The Life a Senator from North Dakota; born in Munich, Cavalier and Times of Usher L. Burdick. Edited by Janet Daley. Fargo: Published County, N.Dak., June 19, 1908; attended the public schools; jointly by the State Historical Society of North Dakota and the North Da- graduated, University of Minnesota 1931 and from the law kota Institute for Regional Studies, 2001. department of the same university 1932; admitted to the BURGENER, Clair Walter, a Representative from Cali- bar the same year and commenced practice in Fargo, fornia; born in Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, December 5, N.Dak.; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth Congress 1921; attended the public schools in Salt Lake City, Utah and served from January 3, 1959, until his resignation Au- and graduated from California State University, San Diego, gust 8, 1960; elected to the United States Senate June 28, 1950; United States Army Air Corps, 1943-1946 and 1951; 1960, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William president, Clair W. Burgener Co., realtors, San Diego, Calif.; Langer; reelected in 1964, 1970, 1976, 1982, and again in elected councilman, city of San Diego, Calif., 1953-1957; vice 1988 and served from August 8, 1960 until his death in mayor of San Diego, Calif., 1955-1956; member of the Cali- Fargo, N. Dak., September 8, 1992; chairman, Committee fornia state assemblyman, 1962-1966; member of the Cali- on Environment and Public Works (One Hundredth through fornia state senator, 1967-1972; president, California Asso- One Hundred Second Congresses). ciation for Retarded Children, 1959-1961; vice president, Na- Bibliography: Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Burdick, Quen- tional Association for Retarded Children, 1961-1962; vice tin. ‘‘Impressions of Congress.’’ North Dakota Quarterly 27 (Spring 1959): 29-32; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Quentin N. Burdick. Wash- chairman, President’s Committee on Mental Retardation, ington: Government Printing Office, 1992. 1970-1973; delegate to Republican National Conventions, 1960, 1964; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-third and BURDICK, Theodore Weld, a Representative from Iowa; to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-January born in Evansburg, Crawford County, Pa., October 7, 1836; 3, 1983); was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety- attended the common schools; moved with his parents to eighth Congress in 1982; member, board of directors, Board Decorah, Iowa, in 1853 and engaged in banking; deputy for International Broadcasting, 1983-1988; president, Cali- treasurer and recorder of Winneshiek County 1854-1857; fornia State Personnel Board, 1983-1993; is a resident of treasurer and recorder from 1858 to 1862, when he resigned Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. to recruit a company for the Union Army; was commissioned as captain and assigned to the Sixth Regiment, Iowa Volun- BURGES, Dempsey, a Representative from North Caro- teer Cavalry, in which he served for three years in the lina; born in Shiloh, Camden County, N.C., in 1751; member Department of the Northwest; after the regiment was mus- of the Provincial Congress in 1775 and 1776; took an active tered out in 1865 he returned to Decorah and became cash- part in the Revolutionary War, serving first as major of ier of the First National Bank; elected as a Republican to the Pasquotank Minutemen and later as lieutenant colonel the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); de- of Gregory’s Continental Regiment; elected as a Republican clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1878; resumed to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses (March 4, 1795-March banking at Decorah, Iowa, and Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.; 3, 1799); died in Camden County, N.C., January 13, 1800; member of the State senate in 1886 and 1887; died in interment in Shiloh Baptist Churchyard. Decorah, Iowa, July 16, 1898; interment in Phelps Cemetery. BURGES, Tristam (great-great-uncle of Theodore BURDICK, Usher Lloyd (father of Quentin N. Burdick, Francis Green), a Representative from Rhode Island; born father-in-law of Jocelyn B. Burdick, and father-in-law of in Rochester, Mass., February 26, 1770; attended the com- Robert W. Levering), a Representative from North Dakota; mon schools; studied medicine at a school in Wrentham; born in Owatonna, Steele County, Minn., February 21, 1879; upon the death of his father he abandoned the study of moved with his parents to Dakota Territory in 1882; raised medicine; was graduated from Rhode Island College (now among the Sioux Indians; was graduated from the State Brown University), Providence, R.I., in 1796; studied law; normal school at Mayville, N.Dak., in 1900; deputy super- was admitted to the bar in 1799 and commenced practice intendent of schools of Benson County, N.Dak., 1900-1902; in Providence, R.I.; member of the State house of representa- was graduated from the law department of the University tives in 1811 and was prominent as a member of the Federal of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1904, teaching school in Party; appointed chief justice of the supreme court of Rhode a business college while attending the university; was admit- Island in May 1815; unsuccessful candidate for election to Biographies 743

the same in 1816; professor of oratory in Brown University; the alum and sumac process, which revolutionized the indus- elected to the Ninteenth through Twenty-first Congresses try; president of the Manufacturers’ National Association and elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second and in 1895; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh and Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1835); Fifty-eighth Congresses and served from March 4, 1901, chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Pensions (Nine- until his death in Philadelphia, Pa., December 5, 1903; inter- teenth Congress), Committee on Military Pensions (Nine- ment in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. teenth and Twentieth Congresses), Committee on Revolu- tionary Claims (Twenty-first Congress), Committee on In- BURKE, Aedanus, a Representative from South Caro- valid Pensions (Twenty-second and Twenty-third Con- lina; born in Galway, Ireland, June 16, 1743; attended the gresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; unsuccessful theological college at St. Omer, France; visited the West Whig candidate for Governor in 1836; resumed the practice Indies; immigrated to the American Colonies and settled of law; died on his estate, ‘‘Watchemoket Farm’’ (now a in Charles Town (now Charleston), S.C.; served in the mili- part of East Providence, R.I.), October 13, 1853; interment tia forces of South Carolina during the Revolutionary War; in North Burial Ground, Providence, R.I. appointed a judge of the State circuit court in 1778 and Bibliography: Bowen, Henry L. Memoir of Tristam Burges: With selec- served until the enemy overran the State; member of the tions from his speeches and occasional writings. Providence: Marshall, South Carolina house of representatives 1779-1788; again Brown; Philadelphia: W. Marshall, 1835. served in the Revolutionary Army 1780-1782; when the courts were reestablished resumed his seat on the bench, BURGESS, George Farmer, a Representative from and in 1785 was appointed one of three commissioners to Texas; born in Wharton, Wharton County, Tex., September prepare a digest of the State laws; member of the convention 21, 1861; attended the common schools; moved with his in 1788 called to consider ratification of the Constitution mother to Fayette County in 1880 and engaged in agricul- tural pursuits near Flatonia; was later employed as a clerk of the United States, which he opposed; elected to the First in a country store; studied law; was admitted to the bar Congress (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791); declined to be in 1882 and commenced practice in La Grange, Tex.; moved a candidate for reelection in 1790 to the Second Congress, to Gonzales in 1884; prosecuting attorney of Gonzales Coun- the legislature having passed a law prohibiting a State judge ty from 1886 to 1889, when he resigned; elected as a Demo- from leaving the State; elected a chancellor of the courts crat to the Fifty-seventh and to the seven succeeding Con- of equity in 1799 and served until his death in Charleston, gresses (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1917); unsuccessful can- S.C., March 30, 1802; interment in the cemetery of the didate for the Democratic nomination of United States Sen- Chapel of Ease of St. Bartholomew’s Parish, near ator in 1916; resumed the practice of law at Gonzales, Tex., Jacksonboro, Colleton County, S.C. where he died December 31, 1919; interment in the Masonic Bibliography: Meleney, John C. The Public Life of Aedanus Burke: Revolutionary Republican in Post-Revolutionary South Carolina. Columbia: Cemetery. University of South Carolina Press, 1989. BURGESS, Michael C., a Representative from Texas; BURKE, Charles Henry, a Representative from South born in Rochester, Olmsted County, Minn., December 23, Dakota; born on a farm near Batavia, Genesee County, N.Y., 1950; B.S., North Texas State University, Denton, Tex., April 1, 1861; attended the public schools of Batavia, N.Y.; 1972; M.S., North Texas State University, Denton, Tex., moved to the Territory of Dakota in 1882 and settled on 1976; M.D., University of Texas Medical School, Houston, a homestead in Beadle County; moved to Hughes County Tex., 1977; M.S., University of Texas, Dallas, Tex., 2000; in 1883; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1886; physician; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred engaged in the real estate investment business in Pierre, Eighth Congress (January 3, 2003-present). S.Dak.; member of the State house of representatives in BURGIN, William Olin, a Representative from North 1895 and 1897; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Carolina; born on a farm near Marion, McDowell County, and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1899- N.C., July 28, 1877; moved with his parents to Ruther- March 3, 1907); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in fordton, N.C., where he attended the public schools and 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress; elected to the Sixty-first, Rutherfordton Military Institute; also attended the Law Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1909- School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; March 3, 1915); chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs engaged as a clerk in a general store in Rutherfordton in (Sixty-first Congress); minority whip (Sixty-third Congress); 1893 and later as a traveling salesman and merchant; did not seek renomination in 1914 having received the Re- moved to Thomasville and engaged in the mercantile busi- publican nomination for United States Senator, but was un- ness; was admitted to the bar; mayor of Thomasville, N.C., successful for election; resumed the investment business; 1906-1910; moved to Lexington, N.C., and continued the appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, practice of law; president and attorney of the Industrial D.C., on April 1, 1921, and served until his resignation Bank of Lexington; director in a number of business enter- on June 30, 1929; engaged in the real estate and loan busi- prises in Lexington; served in the State house of representa- ness in Pierre S. Dak., and also worked in the interest tives in 1931; member of the State senate in 1933; elected of Indians in Washington, D.C.; died in Washington, D.C., as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and to the three suc- April 7, 1944; interment in Riverside Cemetery, Pierre, ceeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until S.Dak. his death in Washington, D.C., on April 11, 1946; interment in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, N.C. BURKE, Edmund, a Representative from New Hamp- shire; born in Westminster, Vt., January 23, 1809; attended BURK, Henry, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born the public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Wurttemberg, Germany, September 26, 1850; immigrated in 1826 and commenced practice in Colebrook, N.H.; moved to the United States in 1854 with his parents, who settled to Claremont, N.H., in 1833 and assumed editorial manage- in Philadelphia, Pa.; attended the public schools about three ment of the New Hampshire Argus; moved to Newport in years; became a repairer of shoemaking machinery and sub- 1834 and united the Argus with the Spectator of that place, sequently engaged in supplying this machinery to the trade; continuing as editor for several years; commissioned as adju- engaged in the manufacture of leather and in 1887 invented tant in the State militia in 1837 and as brigade inspector 744 Biographical Directory

in 1838; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth, Twenty- until 1967; Republican State committeeman, 1954-1958; un- seventh, and Twenty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1839- successful candidate for election to the Eighty-fourth Con- March 3, 1845); was not a candidate for renomination in gress in a special election, January 11, 1955; delegate to 1844; appointed Commissioner of Patents by President Polk Republican National Conventions from 1968 to 1976; mem- and served from May 5, 1846, to September 3, 1850; re- ber, Republican Platform Committee, 1968; appointed by sumed the practice of law in Newport, N.H.; delegate to President Eisenhower to Southeastern Advisory Board of the Democratic National Conventions in 1844 and 1852; del- Small Business in 1956; elected as a Republican to the Nine- egate to the Democratic State convention in 1867, and tieth and to the five succeeding Congresses; (January 3, served as presiding officer; member of the State board of 1967-January 3, 1979); unsuccessful candidate for reelection agriculture in 1871; died in Newport, Sullivan County, N.H., in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; was a resident of January 25, 1882; interment in Maple Grove Cemetery. Falls Church, Va., and Fern Park, Fla., until his death in Altamonte Springs, Fla., on June 16, 1993. BURKE, Edward Raymond, a Representative and a Senator from Nebraska; born at Running Water, Bon BURKE, James Anthony, a Representative from Massa- Homme County, S.Dak., November 28, 1880; moved with chusetts; born in Boston, Mass., March 30, 1910; educated his parents to Sparta, Monroe County, Wis., in 1880; edu- in the Boston public schools and Lincoln Preparatory School; cated in the public schools of Sparta, Wis.; moved to Beloit, attended Suffolk University; registrar of vital statistics for Rock County, in 1902; graduated from Beloit (Wis.) College the city of Boston; during the Second World War was special in 1906; taught school in Chadron, Nebr. 1906-1908; grad- agent in the Counter-intelligence, attached to the Seventy- uated from the law department of Harvard University in seventh Infantry Division in the South Pacific; member of 1911; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced the Massachusetts general court for ten years; member of practice in Omaha, Nebr.; during the First World War en- the Massachusetts house of representatives for four years, listed and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the serving as assistant majority leader; vice chairman of the Air Service 1917-1919; president of the board of education Massachusetts Democratic State committee for four years; of Omaha 1927-1930; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy- elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the nine third Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935); did not succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1979); seek renomination in 1934, having become a candidate for was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety- United States Senator; elected to the United States Senate sixth Congress; was a resident of Milton, Mass. until his in 1934 and served from January 3, 1935, to January 3, death in Boston, Mass. on October 13, 1983; interment at 1941; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1940; Milton Cemetery, Milton, Mass. chairman, Committee on Claims (Seventy-sixth Congress); resumed the practice of law in Omaha, Nebr.; moved to BURKE, James Francis, a Representative from Pennsyl- Washington, D.C., in 1942 and served as president of South- vania; born in Petroleum Center, Venango County, Pa., Oc- ern Coal Producers Association until 1947; Washington rep- tober 21, 1867; attended the public schools, and was grad- resentative and general counsel for Hawaiian Statehood uated from the law department of the University of Michi- Commission until 1950; retired and resided in Kensington, gan at Ann Arbor in 1892; was admitted to the bar the Md., until his death there on November 4, 1968; interment same year and commenced practice in Pittsburgh, Pa.; sec- in Fort Lincoln Mausoleum. retary of the Republican National Committee in 1892, re- signing during the same year to devote his entire time to BURKE, Frank Welsh, a Representative from Kentucky; his duties as president of the American Republican College born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., June 1, 1920; edu- League; appointed by President Harrison to codify the navi- cated in parochial schools of Louisville and St. Xavier High gation laws of the United States; officer of, or a delegate School; attended the University of Southern California; to, the Republican National Conventions from 1892 to 1924, Ph.B., Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1942; J.D., Uni- with the exception of the year 1912; appointed a delegate versity of Louisville, 1948; was admitted to the bar in 1948 to the Parliamentary Peace Conference at Brussels in 1905; and commenced the practice of law in Louisville, Ky.; served elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth and to the four in the United States Army 1942-1946; assistant city attorney succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1915); chair- of Louisville in 1950 and 1951, director of public safety man, Committee on Education (Sixty-first Congress); was of Louisville in 1952; executive assistant to the mayor of not a candidate for renomination in 1914; United States Louisville in 1952 and 1953; member of the Kentucky house Government director of War Savings during the First World of representatives in 1957 and 1958; elected as a Democrat War; resumed the practice of law; elected general counsel to the Eighty-sixth and Eighty-seventh Congresses (January of the Republican National Committee in December 1927 3, 1959-January 3, 1963); unsuccessful candidate in 1962 and served until his death; parliamentarian of the Repub- for reelection to the Eighty-eighth Congress; served as lican National Convention at Kansas City, Mo., in 1928; mayor of Louisville, 1969-1973; is a resident of Louisville, died in Washington, D.C., August 8, 1932; interment in Cal- Ky. vary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa. BURKE, J. Herbert, a Representative from Florida; born BURKE, John Harley, a Representative from California; in Chicago, Ill., January 14, 1913; attended the public born in Excelsior, Richland County, Wis., June 2, 1894; schools of Chicago, Ill.; attended Central Y.M.C.A. College moved to Milaca, Minn., with his parents in 1897, to San in Chicago, Ill., and Northwestern University; graduated Pedro, Calif., in 1900, and to Long Beach, Calif., in 1909; from Kent College of Law in 1940; served in the United attended the public schools; attended the University of States Army in the European Theater in 1942-1945, was Santa Clara and the law department of the University of awarded the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, the European The- Southern California at Los Angeles; was admitted to the ater Medal, and the American Theater Ribbon, and was bar in 1917 and commenced practice in Long Beach, Calif.; discharged with the rank of captain; admitted to the bar during the First World War served as a private, first class, in 1940 and practiced in Chicago, 1940-1949, and Hollywood, in the Twelfth Training Battery, Field Artillery, Camp Tay- Fla., 1949-1968; elected Republican commissioner in lor, Ky.; in 1921 engaged in the oil business as an inde- Broward County, Fla., in 1952 and served in that capacity pendent producer; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy- Biographies 745

third Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935); was not ‘‘Tyaquin,’’ near Hillsboro, Orange County, N.C., December a candidate for renomination in 1934; engaged in the real 2, 1783; interment in Mars Hill Churchyard, near Hillsboro, estate business in Long Beach, Calif., until his death there N.C. May 14, 1951; interment in Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Bibliography: Sanders, Jennings B. ″Thomas Burke in the Continental Calif. Congress.’’ North Carolina Historical Review 9 (January 1932): 22-37. BURKE, Michael Edmund, a Representative from Wis- BURKE, Thomas A., a Senator from Ohio; born in Cleve- consin; born at Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wis., October land, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, October 30, 1898; attended 15, 1863; attended the public schools and was graduated parochial schools; graduated from Holy Cross College, from the Wayland Academy at Beaver Dam in 1884; studied Worcester, Mass., in 1920, and Western Reserve University law at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1886 and Law School, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1923; during the First 1887; was admitted to the bar in 1888 and commenced prac- World War served in the United States Army; admitted tice at Beaver Dam; town clerk 1887-1889; member of the to the bar in 1923 and commenced practice in Cleveland, State assembly 1891-1893; served in the State senate 1895- Ohio; assistant prosecutor of Cuyahoga County 1930-1936; 1899; city attorney of Beaver Dam 1893-1908; delegate to special counsel to the Ohio attorney general in 1937; director the Democratic National Convention in 1904; elected mayor of law for the city of Cleveland 1942-1945; mayor of Cleve- of Beaver Dam and served from 1908 to 1910; elected as land 1945-1953; president of the National Conference of a Democrat to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth Mayors in 1953; appointed on October 12, 1953, as a Demo- Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1917); unsuccessful crat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused candidate for reelection in 1916; died at Beaver Dam, Wis., by the death of Robert A. Taft and served from November December 12, 1918; interment in St. Patrick’s Cemetery. 10, 1953, to December 2, 1954; unsuccessful candidate for election to the vacancy in 1954; resumed the practice of BURKE, Raymond Hugh, a Representative from Ohio; law; died in Cleveland, Ohio, December 5, 1971; interment born in Nicholsville, Clermont County, Ohio, November 4, in Calvary Cemetery. 1881; attended Jackson School; worked on a farm and in the village while studying to teach in rural schools; taught BURKE, Thomas Henry, a Representative from Ohio; at Pendleton School near Point Pleasant in 1899 and 1900; born in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, May 6, 1904; attended student at Oberlin Academy and College 1900-1905; was St. Patrick’s grade school and St. John’s College in Toledo, graduated from the University of Chicago in 1906; taught Ohio; served in the United States Navy as pharmacist’s in Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, 1906-1915; personnel mate 1923-1927 and in the Naval Fleet Reserve 1927-1939; and employment manager 1918-1923; secretary-treasurer of worked for Dana Corp., Toledo, Ohio, 1928-1937; official of an automobile agency 1923-1926; special representative for United Automobile Workers’ Union 1938-1948; member of an insurance company at Hamilton, Ohio, 1926-1954; mayor the Ohio State house of representatives in 1941 and 1942; of Hamilton 1928-1940 and councilman 1928-1942; member member of Toledo city council 1944-1948; vice mayor of To- of the State senate 1942-1946; elected as a Republican to ledo in 1948; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first Con- the Eightieth Congress (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1949); gress (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1951); unsuccessful can- unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty- didate for reelection in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress; first Congress; lecturer in the finance department of Miami labor and manpower adviser in the National Production Au- University in 1949 and 1950; died in Hamilton, Ohio, August thority in 1951; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1952 18, 1954; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. to the Eighty-third Congress; moved to Alexandria, Va.; leg- islative representative, United Automobile Workers’ Union; BURKE, Robert Emmet, a Representative from Texas; died in Arlington, Va., September 12, 1959; interment in born near Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Ala., August 1, Arlington National Cemetery. 1847; attended the public schools of his native city; volun- teered as a private in Company D, Tenth Georgia Cavalry, BURKE, William Joseph, a Representative from Penn- Confederate Army, at the age of sixteen and served through- sylvania; born near London, England, September 25, 1862; out the Civil War; moved to Jefferson, Tex., in 1866; studied immigrated to the United States in 1866 with his parents, law; was admitted to the bar in November 1870 and com- who settled in Reynoldsville, Jefferson County, Pa.; attended menced practice in Dallas, Tex., in 1871; judge of Dallas the public schools; employed in the coal mines at the age County 1878-1888; judge of the fourteenth judicial district of twelve; entered the railroad service in 1878 with residence of Texas 1888-1896; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty- in Pittsburgh, Pa.; was a member of the Allegheny Common fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses and served Council for four years, and from 1906 to 1910 was a member from March 4, 1897, until his death in Dallas, Tex., June of the greater city council of Pittsburgh; became extensively 5, 1901; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. interested in the production of oil near Callery, Butler Coun- ty, in 1904; identified with organized labor as chairman BURKE, Thomas, a Delegate from North Carolina; born of the general committee of adjustment, Order of Railroad in Galway, Ireland, about 1747; studied medicine; immi- Conductors, of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad system; elect- grated to America in 1764, settled in Accomac County, Va., ed a member of the State senate in 1914 and served until and practiced; studied law; was admitted to the bar and January 1, 1918, when he resigned to become a member commenced practice in Norfolk, Va.; moved to Hillsboro, of the Pittsburgh City Council, serving until January 1919, N.C., in 1771; delegate to the State convention at New Bern when he resigned, having been elected to Congress; elected and Hillsboro in 1775 and at Halifax in 1776; member of as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Con- the State house of commons in 1777; Member of the Conti- gresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); did not seek renomi- nental Congress from 1777 to 1781, when he became the nation, but was an unsuccessful candidate for election as third Governor of North Carolina under its State constitu- United States Senator in 1922; resumed activities with orga- tion; kidnaped by the Tories September 13, 1781, and car- nized labor and served as chairman of the general committee ried to Charleston, S.C., where he was held as a hostage; of the Brotherhood of Railroad Conductors; also engaged succeeded in escaping; resumed his duties as Governor Feb- in agricultural pursuits and in the production of oil; died ruary 1, 1782, and served until April 22, 1782; died at at his summer home in Callery Junction, Butler County, 746 Biographical Directory

near Pittsburgh November 7, 1925; interment in Calvary November 27, 1843; attended the common schools and grad- Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa. uated from the Houlton (Maine) Academy; taught school; clerk in the adjutant general’s office; surveyor and farmer; BURKE, Yvonne Brathwaite, a Representative from clerk in the State land office at Bangor 1870-1876; moved California; born Perle Yvonne Watson in Los Angeles, Calif., to Augusta in 1876; State land agent 1876-1878; assistant October 5, 1932; attended the public schools in Los Angeles; clerk in the State house of representatives in 1878; clerk B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Calif., 1953; J.D., in the office of the State treasurer 1880-1884; State treas- University of Southern California School of Law, Los Ange- urer 1884-1888; became principal owner of the Kennebec les, Calif., 1956; lawyer, private practice; served as deputy Journal in 1887; Governor of Maine 1889-1892; elected as corporation commissioner, hearing officer for Los Angeles a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress in 1897 to fill the Police Commission, and attorney on the staff of the McCone vacancy caused by the death of Seth L. Milliken; reelected commission; elected to California State legislature, 1967- to the Fifty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses and 1972; delegate to Democratic National Convention, 1972; served from June 21, 1897, to March 3, 1911; unsuccessful elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-third and to the two candidate for reelection in 1910; resumed newspaper pub- succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1979); lishing in Augusta, Maine, and the management of not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-sixth Congress timberlands; elected as a Republican to the United States in 1978, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Demo- Senate and served from March 4, 1913, until his death in cratic nomination for State Attorney General of California; Augusta, Maine, June 16, 1916; interment in Forest Grove appointed by the Governor to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors,1979-1980; elected a Los Angeles County Su- Cemetery. Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Edwin C. Burleigh. pervisor, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 to present; is a resident 64th Cong., 2nd sess., 1916-1917. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing of Los Angeles, Calif. Office, 1917. Bibliography: Gray, Pamela Lee. ″Yvonne Brathwaite Burke: The Con- gressional Career of California’s First Black Congresswoman, 1972-1978.’’ BURLEIGH, Henry Gordon, a Representative from New Ph.D. diss., University of Southern California, 1987. York; born in Canaan, Grafton County, N.H., June 2, 1832; BURKETT, Elmer Jacob, a Representative and a Sen- attended the common schools; moved to New York in 1846 ator from Nebraska; born on a farm near Glenwood, Mills with his parents, who settled in Ticonderoga, Essex County; County, Iowa, December 1, 1867; attended the public engaged in the mining of iron ore and in the lumber, coal, schools; graduated from Tabor (Iowa) College in 1890 and and transportation business; supervisor of the town of Ticon- from the law department of the University of Nebraska at deroga in 1864 and 1865; moved to Whitehall, Washington Lincoln in 1893; principal of the Leigh, Nebr., public schools County, N.Y., in 1867; member of the State assembly in 1890-1892; admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced 1876; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in practice in Lincoln, Nebr.; trustee of Tabor College 1895- 1880, 1884, 1888, 1892, and 1896; elected as a Republican 1905; member, State house of representatives 1896-1898; to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and 1883-March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for reelection Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1905); re- in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress; died in Whitehall, N.Y., elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress, but resigned, effective August 10, 1900; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Ticon- March 4, 1905, to become Senator; elected as a Republican deroga, N.Y. to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1905, BURLEIGH, John Holmes (son of William Burleigh), to March 3, 1911; unsuccessful candidate for renomination a Representative from Maine; born in South Berwick, York in 1910; chairman, Committee on Indian Depredations County, Maine, October 9, 1822; attended the local academy; (Fifty-ninth Congress); Committee on Pacific Railroads became a sailor when sixteen years of age and commanded (Fifty-ninth through Sixty-first Congresses); resumed the a ship on foreign voyages from 1846 until 1853 when he practice of law in Lincoln, Nebr.; declined the candidacy engaged in woolen manufacturing at South Berwick, Maine; for Governor of Nebraska in 1912; was an unsuccessful can- also engaged in banking; member of the State house of rep- didate for the Vice Presidential nomination in 1912; died resentatives in 1862, 1864, 1866, and again in 1872; delegate in Lincoln, Nebr., May 23, 1935; interment in the Wyuka to the Republican National Convention in 1864; elected as Cemetery. a Republican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses BURKHALTER, Everett Glen, a Representative from (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); was an unsuccessful can- California; born in Heber Springs, Cleburne County, Ark., didate for renomination in 1876; resumed his former manu- Januray 19, 1897; attended the public schools in Arkansas, facturing pursuits; died in South Berwick, Maine, December Indiana, Colorado, and California; electrical and illu- 5, 1877; interment in the Portland Street Cemetery. minating engineer in the motion picture industry; enlisted in the United States Navy, 1918, honorable discharge 1919, BURLEIGH, Walter Atwood, a Delegate from the Terri- active reserve until 1921; member, California State assem- tory of Dakota; born in Waterville, Maine, October 25, 1820; bly, 1942-1952; delegate to the electoral college, 1946; ap- attended the public schools; served as a private in the Aroos- pointed to the California State legislative commission, Amer- took War in 1839; studied medicine in Burlington, Vt., and ican Legion; elected to the Los Angeles City Council, and New York City, and commenced practice in Richmond, served three terms, 1952-1962; elected as a Democrat to Maine; moved to Kittanning, Pa., in 1852; continued the the Eighty-eighth Congress (January 3, 1963-January 3, practice of medicine and studied law; Indian agent at Green- 1965); was not a candidate for renomination in 1964 to wood, Dak., 1861-1865; elected as a Republican to the Thir- the Eighty-ninth Congress; retired and resided in North Hol- ty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, lywood, Calif.; died in Duarte, Calif., May 24, 1975; inter- 1869); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1868 to the ment in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Forty-first Congress; member of the Dakota Territorial coun- Angeles, Calif. cil in 1877; engaged as a contractor and in agricultural pursuits; moved to Miles City, Mont., in 1879 and practiced BURLEIGH, Edwin Chick, a Representative and a Sen- law; member of the special session of the Montana Terri- ator from Maine; born in Linneus, Aroostook County, Maine, torial council in 1887; delegate to the State convention that Biographies 747

framed the constitution of Montana in 1889; member of the through Ninetieth Congresses), Joint Committee on Printing first State house of representatives; prosecuting attorney of (Eighty-fourth Congress); was not a candidate for reelection Custer County in 1889 and 1890; returned to South Dakota in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; was a resident of in 1893; served in the State senate in 1893; resumed the Abilene, Tex., until his death there on May 14, 1991. practice of law; died in Yankton, Yankton County, S.Dak., March 7, 1896; interment in Yankton Cemetery. BURLINGAME, Anson, a Representative from Massa- Bibliography: Wilson, Wesley C. ‘‘Doctor Walter A. Burleigh: Dakota chusetts; born in New Berlin, N.Y., November 14, 1820; Territorial Delegate to 39th and 40th Congress: Politician, Extraordinary.’’ moved with his parents to Seneca County, Ohio, in 1823, North Dakota History 33 (Spring 1966): 93-103. and to Detroit, Mich., in 1833; attended private schools and the Detroit branch of the University of Michigan; was grad- BURLEIGH, William (father of John Holmes Burleigh), uated from the law department of Harvard University in a Representative from Maine; born in Northwood, Rocking- 1846; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in ham County, N.H., October 24, 1785; moved with his parents Boston; served in the State senate in 1852; member of the to Gilmanton, N.H., in 1788; attended the common schools Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1853; elected as and taught for several years; studied law; was admitted a candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Con- to the bar in 1815 and commenced practice in South Ber- gress and as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty- wick, Maine; elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and sixth Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1861); unsuccess- Twentieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1823, until ful candidate for reelection in 1860 to the Thirty-seventh his death in South Berwick, York County, Maine, July 2, Congress; appointed Minister to Austria March 22, 1861, 1827; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Depart- but was not accepted by the Austrian Government because ment of the Treasury (Nineteenth Congress); interment in of certain opinions he was known to entertain regarding Portland Street Cemetery. Hungary and Sardinia; Minister to China from June 14, 1861, to November 21, 1867; appointed December 1, 1867, BURLESON, Albert Sidney, a Representative from by the Chinese Government its ambassador to negotiate Texas; born in San Marcos, Hays County, Tex., June 7, treaties with foreign powers; died in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1863; attended the public schools and Coronal Institute, San February 23, 1870; interment in , Marcos, Tex., and the Agricultural and Mechanical College, Cambridge, Mass. College Station, Tex.; was graduated from Baylor University, Bibliography: Anderson, David L. ‘‘: Reformer and Waco, Tex., in 1881 and from the law department of the Diplomat.’’ Civil War History 25 (December 1979): 293-308; Koo, Telly H. University of Texas at Austin in 1884; was admitted to ‘‘The Life of Anson Burlingame.’’ Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1922. the bar in 1884 and commenced practice in Austin, Travis County, Tex., in 1885; assistant city attorney of Austin 1885- BURLISON, William Dean, a Representative from Mis- 1890; served as district attorney of the twenty-sixth judicial souri; born in Wardell, Pemscot County, Mo., March 15, district 1891-1898; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth 1933; B.A., Southeast Missouri State University, 1953; B.S., and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from same university, 1959; M.Ed. and LL.B., University of Mis- March 4, 1899, until March 6, 1913, when he resigned to souri 1956; admitted to practice before United States Su- become Postmaster General in the Cabinet of President Wil- preme Court, United States Court of Military Appeals, son; served from March 7, 1913, to March 4, 1921, when United States District Court, and all Missouri courts; presi- he retired from public life; chairman of the United States dent, Missouri Prosecuting Attorneys Association; assistant Telegraph and Telephone Administration in 1918; chairman attorney general of Missouri, 1960-1962; prosecuting attor- of the United States Commission to the International Wire ney, Cape Girardeau County, for three terms; Head General Communication Conference in 1920; returned to Austin, Courts-Martial Trial Counsel, Second Marine Division, Tex., and engaged in banking; also interested in agricultural United States Marine Corps.; instructor, business law, pursuits and the raising of livestock; died in Austin, Tex., Southeast Missouri State College; delegate, Democratic Na- November 24, 1937; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. tional Convention, 1964; elected as a Democrat to the Nine- Bibliography: Anderson, Adrian N. ‘‘Albert Sidney Burleson: A South- ty-first and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, ern Politician in the Progressive Era.’’ Ph.D. diss., Texas Tech University, 1969-January 3, 1981); unsuccessful candidate for reelection 1967; Anderson, Adrian N. ‘‘President Wilson’s Politician: Albert Sidney in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress; resumed the prac- Burleson of Texas.’’ Southwestern Historical Quarterly 77 (January 1974): tice of law; is a resident of Crofton, Md. 339-54. BURNELL, Barker, a Representative from Massachu- BURLESON, Omar Truman, a Representative from setts; born in Nantucket, Mass., January 30, 1798; member Texas; born in Anson, Jones County, Tex., March 19, 1906; of the State house of representatives in 1819; member of attended the public schools, Abilene Christian College, and the Massachusetts Constitutional convention in 1820; served Hardin-Simmons University at Abilene, Tex.; was graduated in the State senate in 1824 and 1825; delegate to the Whig from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1929; was National Convention in 1840; elected as a Whig to the Twen- admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice ty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses and served from in Gorman, Tex.; county attorney of Jones County, Tex., March 4, 1841, until his death in Washington, D.C., June 1931-1934; judge of Jones County, Tex., 1934-1940; special 15, 1843; interment in Congressional Cemetery; reinterment agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1940 and in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, Mass., in 1844. 1941; secretary to Congressman Sam Russell of Texas in 1941 and 1942; general counsel for the Housing Authority, BURNES, Daniel Dee, a Representative from Missouri; District of Columbia, in 1942; served in the United States born in Ringgold, Platte County, Mo., January 4, 1851; re- Navy from December 1942 to April 1946, with service in ceived his early schooling at Weston, Mo.; was graduated the South Pacific Theater; elected as a Democrat to the from St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo., in 1873 and from Eightieth Congress; reelected to the fifteen succeeding Con- the law department of Harvard University in 1874; went gresses and served from January 3, 1947, until his resigna- to Germany and studied at Heidelberg University; returned tion December 31, 1978; chairman, Committee on House to the United States and settled in St. Joseph, Mo., where Administration (Eighty-fourth through Ninetieth Con- he engaged in the practice of law; elected as a Democrat gresses), Joint Committee on the Library (Eighty-fourth to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); 748 Biographical Directory

declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1894; resumed Mass.; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth Congress the practice of law; died on his estate, ‘‘Ayr Lawn,’’ at St. (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); unsuccessful candidate for Joseph, Buchanan County, Mo., November 2, 1899; inter- reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; general man- ment in Mount Mora Cemetery. ager of Flosham Farms, Madison, N.J., 1892-1900; became engaged as a farm architect in New York City from 1900 BURNES, James Nelson, a Representative from Mis- to 1925; died in Milton, Mass., November 5, 1925; interment souri; born in Marion County, Ind., August 22, 1827; moved in St. Mark’s Churchyard, Southboro, Mass. with his parents to Platte County, Mo., in 1837; attended the common schools; was graduated from the Harvard Law BURNETT, Henry Cornelius, a Representative from School in 1853; was admitted to the bar and commenced Kentucky; born in Essex County, Va., October 5, 1825; practice in Missouri; attorney of the district of Missouri moved with his parents to Kentucky in early childhood; at- in 1856; judge of the court of common pleas 1868-1872; tended the common schools and an academy at Hopkinsville, engaged in banking and the construction of railroads; served Christian County; studied law; was admitted to the bar in as president of the Missouri Valley Railroad Co.; principal 1847 and commenced practice in Cadiz, Ky.; clerk of the owner and president of the St. Joseph Waterworks Co.; elect- Trigg County circuit court 1851-1853; elected as a Democrat ed as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fif- to the Thirty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses tieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1883, until his and served from March 4, 1855, to December 3, 1861, when death; had been reelected to the Fifty-first Congress, but he was expelled for support of secession; colonel of the died in Washington, D.C. on January 23, 1889, before the Eighth Regiment, Kentucky Infantry, in the Confederate commencement of the congressional term; interment in Army during the Civil War; president of the Kentucky Mount Mora Cemetery, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Mo. Southern Conference in Russellville, October 29, 1861, and of the sovereignty convention in Russellville, November 18, BURNET, Jacob (son of William Burnet), a Senator from which passed an ordinance of secession and organized a Ohio; born in Newark, N.J., February 22, 1770; pursued State government; Representative from Kentucky to the Pro- preparatory studies; graduated from the College of New Jer- visional Confederate Congress and served from November sey (now Princeton University) in 1791; studied law; admit- 18, 1861, to February 17, 1862; elected as a Senator from ted to the bar in 1796 and commenced practice in Cin- Kentucky to the First and Second Confederate Congresses cinnati, Ohio; one of three judges appointed to hold court and served from February 19, 1862, to February 18, 1865; in Cincinnati, Vincennes, and Detroit; member, Territorial resumed the practice of law; died in Hopkinsville, Ky., Octo- councils of Ohio 1799-1802; member, State house of rep- ber 1, 1866; interment in East End Cemetery, Cadiz, Trigg resentatives 1814-1816; appointed judge of the Ohio Su- County, Ky. preme Court in 1821 and served until his resignation in Bibliography: Craig, Berry F. ‘‘Henry Cornelius Burnett: Champion of December 1828; elected to the United States Senate to fill Southern Rights.’’ Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 77 (Autumn the vacancy caused by the resignation of William H. Har- 1979): 266-74. rison and served from December 10, 1828, to March 3, 1831; was not a candidate for renomination in 1831; member of BURNETT, John Lawson, a Representative from Ala- the commission appointed in 1831 by the States of Virginia bama; born in Cedar Bluff, Cherokee County, Ala., January and Kentucky to settle their controversy over the statute 20, 1854; attended the common schools of the county, Wes- of limitation passed by Kentucky; resumed the practice of leyan Institute, Cave Spring, Ga., and the local high school law; president of the Cincinnati College and the Medical at Gaylesville, Ala.; studied law and was graduated from College of Ohio; president of the Cincinnati branch of the Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; was admitted to the United States Bank; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 10, bar in Cherokee County, Ala., in 1876 and commenced prac- 1853; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery. tice in Gadsden; served in the State house of representatives Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- in 1884; member of the State senate in 1886; elected as ography; Burnet, Jacob. Notes on the Early Settlement of the North-West- a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth and to the ten succeeding ern Territory. 1847. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1975; Este, David K. Congresses and served from March 4, 1899, until his death; Discourse on the Life and Public Services of the Late Jacob Burnet. Cin- chairman, Committee on Immigration and Naturalization cinnati: Press of the Cincinnati Gazette Co., 1853. (Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Congresses); member of the BURNET, William (father of Jacob Burnet), a Delegate United States Immigration Commission 1907-1910; died in from New Jersey; born in Newark, N.J., December 2, 1730; Gadsden, Etowah County, Ala., May 13, 1919; interment was graduated from Princeton College in 1749; studied medi- in Forest Cemetery. cine in New York and commenced practice in Newark; chair- BURNEY, William Evans, a Representative from Colo- man of the committee of public safety in Newark in 1775; superintendent of a military hospital in Newark in 1775; rado; born in Hubbard, Hill County, Tex., September 11, surgeon general of the eastern district of the United States 1893; attended the public schools in Texas and the Univer- 1776-1783; returned to Newark and engaged in agricultural sity of New Mexico at Albuquerque; during the First World pursuits; appointed presiding judge of the court of common War served in the United States Navy; moved to Pueblo, pleas by the State legislature in 1776; Member of the Conti- Colo., in 1924 and engaged in the life insurance business nental Congress from December 11, 1780, to April 1, 1781, until 1942; member of the Pueblo board of education 1937- when he resigned; first judge of Essex County in 1781; presi- 1943; member of the United States Army Reserve Corps dent of the State medical society in 1787; died in Newark, 1924-1942, serving in all grades up to major; elected as N.J., October 7, 1791; interment in the First Presbyterian a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy Churchyard. caused by the death of John A. Martin and served from November 5, 1940, to January 3, 1941; was not a candidate BURNETT, Edward, a Representative from Massachu- for election to the full term in the Seventy-seventh Congress; setts; born in Boston, Mass., March 16, 1849; attended St. was called to active duty in the Army as a major in January Paul’s School; was graduated from St. Mark’s School, 1942 and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel Southboro, Mass., in 1867 and from Harvard University in in October 1942; returned to the United States from India 1871; engaged in agricultural pursuits near Southboro, and took command of Camp Ross in May 1945; left the Biographies 749

service in December 1945 with the rank of colonel; resumed Commissioner 1986; elected as a Republican to the United the life insurance business until his retirement; died in Den- States Senate in 1988; reelected in 1994, and again in 2000 ver, Colo., January 29, 1969; interment in Fairmount Ceme- for the term ending January 3, 2007. tery. BURNS, John Anthony, a Delegate from the Territory BURNHAM, Alfred Avery, a Representative from Con- of Hawaii; born in Fort Assinneboine, Mont., March 30, necticut; born in Windham, Windham County, Conn., on 1909; resident of Hawaii since May 30, 1913; attended school March 8, 1819; completed a preparatory course and attended in Honolulu and Kansas; attended the University of Hawaii college one year; studied law; was admitted to the bar in in 1930 and 1931; police officer, city and county of Honolulu, 1843 and commenced practice in Windham; member of the 1934-1945; chairman, Traffic Safety Commission, city and State house of representatives in 1844, 1845, 1850, and county of Honolulu, 1950-1954; president of Burns & Co., 1858, serving as speaker in 1858; clerk of the State senate Ltd., real-estate broker; Honolulu Civil Defense Adminis- in 1847; Lieutenant Governor in 1857; elected as a Repub- trator 1951-1955; delegate to the Democratic National Con- lican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses ventions in 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968; chairman (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1863); was not a candidate for of Honolulu County Democratic Committee 1948-1952; chair- renomination in 1862; again a member of the State house man of Territorial Democratic Central Committee, 1952- of representatives in 1870 and served as speaker; died in 1956; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fifth and to the Windham, Conn., April 11, 1879; interment in Windham succeeding Congress when Hawaii became a State in the Cemetery, Windham Center, Conn. Union (January 3, 1957-August 21, 1959); unsuccessful can- didate for election as Governor of the State of Hawaii in BURNHAM, George, a Representative from California; 1959; real-estate broker; elected Governor, State of Hawaii, born in London, England, December 28, 1868; attended the in 1962, and reelected in 1966 and 1970; died in Honolulu, public schools; immigrated in 1881 to the United States Hawaii, April 5, 1975; interment in Punchbowl National with his parents, who settled in Spring Valley, Minn.; em- Cemetery. ployed as a clerk 1884-1886; moved to Jackson, Minn., in Bibliography: Boylan, Dan, and T. Michael Holmes. John A. Burns: 1887 and engaged in the retail shoe business until 1901, The Man and His Times. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2000. when he moved to Spokane, Wash., and engaged in the real-estate business and in ranching; moved to San Diego, BURNS, Joseph, a Representative from Ohio; born in Calif., in 1903 and continued in the real estate business Waynesboro, Augusta County, Va., March 11, 1800; moved until 1917 when he took up banking; one of the organizers to Ohio with his parents, who settled in New Philadelphia of the Panama-California Exposition in 1909, serving as vice in 1815, and near Coshocton, Coshocton County, in 1816; president from 1909 to 1916; member of the Honorary Com- attended the rural schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; mercial Commission to China in 1910; member of the San auditor of Coshocton County 1821-1838; member of the State Diego Library Commission 1926-1932 and of the San Diego house of representatives 1838-1840; county clerk 1843-1851; Scientific Library 1926-1932; elected as a Republican to the served as a major general in the State militia; elected as Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857- 1933-January 3, 1937); was not a candidate for renomination March 3, 1859); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1858 in 1936; vice president of the California-Pacific International to the Thirty-sixth Congress; engaged in the drug business Exposition 1935-1936; retired and resided in San Diego, in Coshocton, Ohio; probate judge of Coshocton County; died Calif., until his death there on June 28, 1939; interment in Coshocton, Ohio, May 12, 1875; interment in Oak Ridge Cemetery. in Greenwood Cathedral Mausoleum, Greenwood Memorial Park. BURNS, Max, a Representative from Georgia; born in Millen, Jenkins County, Ga., on November 8, 1948; B.A., BURNHAM, Henry Eben, a Senator from New Hamp- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., 1973; M.B.A, shire; born in Dunbarton, Merrimack County, N.H., Novem- Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga., 1977; Ph.D., Georgia ber 8, 1844; attended the public schools and Kimball Union State University, Atlanta, Ga., 1987; United States Army Academy; graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, Reserve, 1973; Screven County, Ga., Commission, 1993-1998; N.H., in 1865; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1868 elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Eighth Con- and commenced practice in Manchester; engaged in banking gress (January 3, 2003-January 3, 2005); unsuccessful can- and insurance; member, State house of representatives 1873- didate for reelection in 2004. 1874; treasurer of Hillsboro County 1875-1877; judge of pro- bate for Hillsboro County 1876-1879; member of the con- BURNS, Robert, a Representative from New Hampshire; stitutional convention of 1889; chairman of the Republican born in Hudson, Hillsboro County, N.H., December 12, 1792; State convention in 1888; served as ballot-law commissioner moved with his parents in childhood to Rumney, Grafton 1892-1900; elected as a Republican to the United States County; studied medicine in Warren; taught school; attended Senate in 1901; reelected in 1907 and served from March Dartmouth Medical School in 1815; returned to Warren and 4, 1901, to March 3, 1913; was not a candidate for reelection; commenced the practice of medicine; moved to Hebron, Graf- chairman, Committee on Cuban Relations (Fifty-eighth ton County, in 1818 and continued the practice of his profes- through Sixtieth Congresses), Committee on Claims (Sixty- sion until 1835; fellow of the New Hampshire Medical Soci- first Congress), Committee on Agriculture and Forestry ety in 1824; member of the State senate in 1831; elected (Sixty-second Congress); resumed the practice of law; died as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Con- in Manchester, N.H., February 8, 1917; interment in Pine gresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); continued the prac- Grove Cemetery. tice of medicine in Plymouth, N.H., until his death June 26, 1866; interment in the churchyard of Trinity Church, BURNS, Conrad, a Senator from Montana; born in Gal- Holderness, Grafton County, N.H. latin, Davies County, Mo., January 25, 1935; attended the Gallatin public schools; attended the University of Missouri BURNSIDE, Ambrose Everett, a Senator from Rhode 1953-1954; United States Marine Corps 1955-1957; farm Island; born in Liberty, Ind., May 23, 1824; attended a semi- broadcaster and auctioneer; Yellowstone (Mont.) County nary at Liberty and Beach Grove Academy; graduated from 750 Biographical Directory

the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1847; born in Newark, N.J., February 6, 1756; graduated from served in the Mexican and Indian wars; resigned in 1852 the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in to manufacture a breech-loading rifle of his own invention; 1772; studied theology but soon abandoned it for the law; moved to Illinois, and was appointed treasurer of the Illinois during the Revolutionary War entered the Continental Army Central Railroad in 1858; during the Civil War entered the 1775-1779; admitted to the bar in 1782 and practiced in Union Army in 1861 as colonel; commanded a brigade at Albany, N.Y.; moved to New York City in 1783; member, the ; commissioned brigadier general State assembly 1784-1785, 1798-1799; attorney general of and major general and resigned in 1865; Governor of Rhode New York 1789-1790; commissioner of Revolutionary claims Island 1866-1868; during a visit to Europe in 1870 acted in 1791; elected to the United States Senate and served as mediator between the French and the Germans then at from March 4, 1791, to March 3, 1797; unsuccessful can- war; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate didate for reelection; president of the State constitutional in 1874; reelected in 1880 and served from March 4, 1875, convention in 1801; in the presidential election of 1800, Burr until his death in Bristol, R.I., September 13, 1881; chair- and Thomas Jefferson each had seventy-three votes, and man, Committee on Education and Labor (Forty-fifth Con- the House of Representatives on the thirty-sixth ballot elect- gress), Committee on Foreign Relations (Forty-seventh Con- ed Jefferson President and Burr Vice President; challenged gress); interment in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I. and mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton in a duel fought Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Marvel, William. at Weehawken, N.J., July 11, 1804; indicted for murder Burnside. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991; Thomas, in New York and New Jersey but never tried in either Donna. ‘‘Ambrose E. Burnside and Army Reform.’’ Rhode Island History 37 jurisdiction; escaped to South Carolina, then returned to (February 1978): 3-13. Washington and completed his term of service as Vice Presi- dent; arrested and tried for treason in August 1807 for at- BURNSIDE, Maurice Gwinn, a Representative from tempting to form a republic in the Southwest of which he West Virginia; born near Columbia, Richland County, S.C., was to be the head, but was acquitted; went abroad in August 23, 1902; attended the public schools of South Caro- 1808; returned to New York City in 1812 and resumed the lina; attended The Citadel, Charleston, S.C., 1920-1922; practice of law; died in Port Richmond, Staten Island, N.Y., graduated from Furman University Law School, Greenville, September 14, 1836; interment in the President’s lot, Prince- S.C., 1926; M.A., University of Texas, Austin, Tex., 1928; ton Cemetery, Princeton, N.J. Ph.D., Duke University, Durham, N.C., 1937; instructor, Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- Greenville High School, Greenville, S.C., 1931-1932; staff, ography; Burr, Aaron. The Political Correspondence and Public Papers of Duke University Library, Durham, N.C., 1933-1935; instruc- Aaron Burr. Edited by Mary-Jo Kline. 2 vols. Princeton: Princeton Univer- tor, Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Auburn University), Au- sity Press, 1983; Parmet, Herbert S., and Hecht, Marie. Aaron Burr: Por- burn, Ala., 1936-1937; professor, Marshall University, Hun- trait of an Ambitious Man. New York: Macmillan Press, 1967; Melton, tington, W.Va., 1937-1948; member, Parole and Probation Buckner F., Jr. Aaron Burr: Conspiracy to Treason. New York: Wiley, Examination Board of West Virginia, 1939-1941; chairman 2002. of Workers Education for West Virginia, 1942-1945; elected BURR, Albert George, a Representative from Illinois; as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Con- born near Batavia, Genesee County, N.Y., November 8, gresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1953); unsuccessful can- 1829; moved to Illinois with his mother, who settled near didate for reelection to the Eighty-third Congress in 1952; Springfield, Sangamon County, in 1830; completed pre- branch chief, National Security Agency, Washington, D.C., paratory studies; taught school for several years at Vandalia, 1953; elected to the Eighty-fourth Congress (January 3, Ill.; moved to Winchester, Scott County, in 1850 and en- 1955-January 3, 1957); unsuccessful candidate for election gaged in mercantile pursuits; studied law; was admitted to the Eighty-fifth Congress in 1956; business executive; to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in Winchester; public advocate; delegate, Democratic National Convention, member of the State house of representatives 1861-1864; 1960; legislative liaison, Department of Defense, 1961-1968; moved to Carrollton, Greene County, in 1868 and continued author; died on February 2, 1991, in Wilson, N.C.; remains the practice of law; member of the State constitutional con- were cremated. vention in 1870; elected as a Democrat to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1871); was BURNSIDE, Thomas, a Representative from Pennsyl- not a candidate for renomination in 1870; resumed the prac- vania; born near Newton Stewart, County Tyrone, Ireland, tice of law in Carrollton, Ill.; elected circuit judge of the July 28, 1782; immigrated to the United States with his seventh judicial circuit in 1877 and served until his death; father’s family, who settled in Norristown, Montgomery died in Carrollton, Ill., June 10, 1882; interment in the County, Pa., in 1793; studied law; was admitted to the bar Carrollton Cemetery. in 1804 and commenced practice in Bellefonte; appointed deputy attorney general January 12, 1809; served in the BURR, Richard M., a Representative from North Caro- State senate in 1811 and 1812; elected as a Republican lina; born in Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va., Novem- to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by ber 30, 1955; graduated from Reynolds High School, Win- the death of David Bard and served from October 10, 1815, ston-Salem, N.C., 1974; B.A., , Win- to April 1816, when he resigned; appointed president judge ston-Salem, N.C., 1978; unsuccessful candidate for election of the Luzerne district courts in 1815, and resigned in 1819; to the One Hundred Third Congress in 1992; elected as again a member of the State senate and its presiding officer a Republican to the One Hundred Fourth and to the four in 1823; president judge of the fourth judicial district 1826- succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1995-January 3, 2005); 1841 and later presided in the same capacity over the sev- was not a candidate for reelection to the House of Represent- enth judicial district; appointed an associate justice of the atives, but was a successful candidate for election to the supreme court of Pennsylvania in 1845, which office he held United States Senate in 2004. until his death in Germantown, Pa., March 25, 1851; inter- ment in Union Cemetery, Bellefonte, Centre County, Pa. BURRELL, Orlando, a Representative from Illinois; born in Newton, Bradford County, Pa., July 26, 1826; moved with BURR, Aaron (cousin of Theodore Dwight), a Senator his parents to White County, Ill., in 1834; attended the from New York and a Vice President of the United States; common schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; during Biographies 751

the Civil War raised a company of Cavalry in June 1861, representatives 1816-1820 and in 1826; delegate to the State was elected its captain, and was attached to the First Regi- constitutional convention in 1818; one of the commissioners ment, Illinois Volunteer Cavalry; judge of White County to establish the boundary line between the States of Con- 1873-1881; sheriff of White County 1892-1894; delegate to necticut and Massachusetts; elected to the Seventeenth Con- the Republican National Convention at Minneapolis in 1892; gress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823); was not a candidate elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March for renomination in 1822; resident of Middletown, Conn., 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); unsuccessful candidate for reelection 1823-1854; surveyor and inspector of customs for the port in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; retired from public life of Middletown 1823-1847; died in Mystic, New London Coun- and resumed his agricultural pursuits; died in Carmi, White ty, Conn., January 23, 1858; interment in Elm Grove Ceme- County, Ill., June 7, 1921; interment in Maple Ridge Ceme- tery. tery. BURROWS, Joseph Henry, a Representative from Mis- BURRILL, James, Jr., (great-grandfather of Theodore souri; born in Manchester, England, May 15, 1840; immi- Francis Green), a Senator from Rhode Island; born in Provi- grated to the United States with his parents, who settled dence, R.I., April 25, 1772; graduated from Rhode Island in Quincy, Ill.; attended the common schools at Quincy, Ill., and Keokuk, Iowa; engaged in mercantile pursuits and later College (now Brown University) at Providence in 1788; stud- in agricultural pursuits; moved to Cainsville, Harrison Coun- ied law; admitted to the bar in 1791 and commenced practice ty, Mo., in 1862; was ordained as a minister in Cainsville in Providence; attorney general of Rhode Island 1797-1814; in 1867; member of the State house of representatives 1870- member, State house of representatives 1813-1816 and 1874 and 1878-1880; elected as a Greenbacker to the Forty- served as speaker 1814-1816; chief justice of the State su- seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); unsuccess- preme court in 1816; elected to the United States Senate ful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Con- and served from March 4, 1817, until his death in Wash- gress; resumed ministerial duties and also engaged in agri- ington, D.C., December 25, 1820; chairman, Committee on cultural pursuits; died in Cainsville, Mo., April 28, 1914; Judiciary (Fifteenth Congress); funeral services were held interment in Oak Lawn Cemetery, near Cainsville. in the Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in Congressional Cemetery. BURROWS, Julius Caesar, a Representative and a Sen- Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography. ator from Michigan; born in North East, Erie County, Pa., January 9, 1837; moved with his parents to Ashtabula Coun- BURROUGHS, Sherman Everett, a Representative ty, Ohio; attended district school, Kingsville Academy, and from New Hampshire; born in Dunbarton, Merrimack Coun- Grand River Institute, Austinburg, Ohio; studied law; admit- ty, N.H., February 6, 1870; attended the public schools, and ted to the bar at Jefferson, Ohio, in 1859; moved to Rich- was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in land, Kalamazoo County, Mich., in 1860; principal of the 1894; private secretary to Congressman Henry M. Baker, Richland Seminary; commenced the practice of law in Kala- 1894-1897; was graduated from the law school of Columbian mazoo in 1861; raised an infantry company in 1862; served College (now George Washington University), Washington, as its captain until the fall of 1863; elected circuit court D.C., in 1896; was admitted to the bar in 1896 and com- commissioner in 1864; prosecuting attorney for Kalamazoo menced practice in Manchester, N.H., in 1897; member of County 1866-1870; declined appointment as supervisor of the State house of representatives in 1901 and 1902; mem- internal revenue for Michigan and Wisconsin in 1868; elect- ber of the State board of charities and corrections 1901- ed as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1907; member of the State board of equalization in 1909 1873-March 3, 1875); chairman, Committee on Expenditures and 1910; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress in the Department of the Navy (Forty-third Congress); un- in a special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death successful candidate for reelection in 1874; elected to the of United States Representative Cyrus A. Sulloway, and re- Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879- elected to the two succeeding Congresses (May 29, 1917- March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Territories (Forty- January 27, 1923); declined to be a candidate for reelection seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in to the Sixty-eighth Congress in 1922; died in Washington, 1882; elected a Republican to the Forty-ninth and to the D.C., January 27, 1923; interment in Valley Cemetery, Man- five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1885, chester, N.H. until his resignation on January 23, 1895, having been elect- ed Senator; chairman, Committee on Levees and Improve- BURROUGHS, Silas Mainville, a Representative from ments of Mississippi River (Fifty-first Congress); elected as New York; born in Ovid, N.Y., July 16, 1810; completed a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy a preparatory course; village clerk of Medina, Orleans Coun- caused by the death of Francis B. Stockbridge; reelected ty, N.Y., in 1835; village trustee in 1836 and 1839-1843; in 1899 and 1905 and served from January 24, 1895, to studied law; was admitted to the bar in Orleans County March 3, 1911; unsuccessful candidate for renomination; in 1840 and commenced practice in Medina; again trustee chairman, Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United of Medina 1845-1847; village attorney 1845-1847; served as States (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-sixth Congresses), Com- brigadier general in the New York State Militia 1848-1858; mittee on Privileges and Elections (Fifty-seventh through member of the State assembly in 1837, 1850, 1851, and Sixty-first Congresses); member of the National Monetary 1853; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty- Commission and its vice chairman 1908-1912; retired from sixth Congresses and served from March 4, 1857, until his active business pursuits and political life; died in Kala- death in Medina, N.Y., June 3, 1860; interment in Boxwood mazoo, Mich., November 16, 1915; interment in Mountain Cemetery. Home Cemetery. Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- BURROWS, Daniel (uncle of Lorenzo Burrows), a Rep- ography; Holsinger, M. Paul. ‘‘J.C. Burrows and the Fight Against Mor- resentative from Connecticut; born at Fort Hill, Groton, monism, 1903-1907.’’ Michigan History 52 (Fall 1968): 181-95; Orcutt, Dana. Burrows of Michigan and the Republican Party. New York: Conn., October 26, 1766; pursued preparatory studies; en- Longmans, Green and Company, 1917. gaged in the manufacture of carriages and wagons at New London, Conn.; studied theology; was ordained as a minister BURROWS, Lorenzo (nephew of Daniel Burrows), a Rep- of the Methodist Church; member of the State house of resentative from New York; born in Groton, Conn., March 752 Biographical Directory

15, 1805; attended the academies at Plainfield, Conn., and and 1948; member of the State house of representatives Westerly, R.I.; moved to New York and settled in Albion, in 1919 and 1920; elected as a Republican to the Sixty- Orleans County, in 1824; employed as a clerk until 1826, seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, when he engaged in mercantile pursuits; assisted in estab- 1921-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- lishing the Bank of Albion in 1839, and served as cashier; tion in 1932; resumed the practice of law; city attorney treasurer of Orleans County in 1840; assignee in bankruptcy of Grand Forks, N.Dak., in 1936 and 1937; judge of the for Orleans County in 1841; supervisor of the town of Barre first judicial district of North Dakota from November 1950 in 1845; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first and Thirty- until his death; died in Grand Forks, N.Dak., January 20, second Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); comp- 1960; interment in Memorial Park Cemetery. troller of the State of New York 1855-1857; director and BURTON, Charles Germman, a Representative from president of the Niagara Falls International Bridge Co.; cho- Missouri; born in Cleveland, Ohio, April 4, 1846; moved sen a regent of the University of New York in 1858 and to Warren, Ohio, and attended the public schools; enlisted appointed one of the commissioners of Mount Albion Ceme- as a private September 7, 1861, in Company C, Nineteenth tery in 1862, serving in both of these capacities at the time Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served with the of his death in Albion, Orleans County, N.Y., March 6, 1885; regiment until discharged October 29, 1862; corporal in interment in Mount Albion Cemetery. Company A, One Hundred and Seventy-first Regiment, Ohio National Guard, during the ‘‘one hundred days’’ campaign BURSUM, Holm Olaf, a Senator from New Mexico; born of 1864; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Warren, at Fort Dodge, Webster County, Iowa, February 10, 1867; Ohio, in 1867; moved to Virgil City, Mo., in 1868, to Erie, attended the public schools; moved to New Mexico in 1881; Kans., in 1869, and Nevada, Vernon County, Mo., in 1871, settled near Socorro, Socorro County, and engaged in stock where he practiced law; circuit attorney and judge of the raising; member, Territorial senate 1899-1900; chairman of twenty-fifth circuit; delegate to the Republican National the Territorial central committee in 1905 and 1911; member Conventions in 1884 and 1904; elected as a Republican to of the State constitutional convention in 1910; member of the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); the Republican National Committee 1920-1924; appointed unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty- on March 11, 1921, and subsequently elected on September fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law; collector of inter- 20, 1921, as a Republican to the United States Senate to nal revenue at Kansas City, Mo., 1907-1915; commander fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Albert B. Fall in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1908; died and served from March 11, 1921, to March 3, 1925; unsuc- in Kansas City, Mo., February 25, 1926; interment in Deepwood Cemetery, Nevada, Mo. cessful candidate for reelection in 1924; chairman, Com- mittee on Pensions (Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Con- BURTON, Clarence Godber, a Representative from Vir- gresses) engaged in the newspaper business at Washington, ginia; born in Providence, R.I., December 14, 1886; moved D.C., and subsequently returned to Socorro, N.Mex., and with his parents to Lynchburg, Campbell County, Va., at resumed his former business interests until his death in an early age; attended the public schools; was graduated Colorado Springs, Colo., August 7, 1953; interment in from Piedmont Business College, Lynchburg, Va.; engaged Socorro Protestant Cemetery, Socorro, N.Mex. in the hosiery manufacturing industry, becoming treasurer Bibliography: Moorman, Donald R. ‘‘A Political Biography of Holm O. of a firm in 1907 and president in 1921; also engaged in Bursum, 1899-1924.’’ Ph.D. dissertation, University of New Mexico, 1962; cattle raising and banking; member of the Lynchburg School Fernlund, Kevin J. ‘‘Senator Holm O. Bursom and the Mexican Ring, Board 1938-1943, serving as vice chairman; member of the 1921-1924.’’ New Mexico Historical Review 66 (October 1991): 433-53. Lynchburg City Council 1942-1948, serving as mayor 1946- 1948; elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth Congress on BURT, Armistead, a Representative from South Caro- November 2, 1948, to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- lina; born at Clouds Creek, near Edgefield, Edgefield Dis- tion of J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., and at the same time was trict, S.C., November 13, 1802; moved with his parents to elected to the Eighty-first Congress; reelected to the Eighty- Pendleton, S.C.; completed preparatory studies; studied law; second Congress and served from November 2, 1948, to Jan- was admitted to the bar in 1823 and practiced in Pendleton; uary 3, 1953; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 moved to Abbeville, S.C., in 1828 and continued the practice to the Eighty-third Congress; chairman of board of Lynch- of law; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of burg Hosiery Mills, Inc.; member, Lynchburg Board of Zon- the South Carolina house of representatives, 1834-1835, and ing Appeals, 1957-1977; director, American Federal Savings 1838-1841; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and and Loan Association, 1924-1968, and chairman until 1980; to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1843-March resided in Lynchburg, Va., until his death there on January 3, 1853); chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Thirty- 18, 1982; interment in Spring Hill Cemetery. first and Thirty-second Congresses); served as Speaker pro BURTON, Danny Lee, a Representative from Indiana; tempore of the House of Representatives during the absence born in Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind., June 21, 1938; of Speaker Winthrop in 1848; was not a candidate for re- attended Indiana University, Indianapolis, Ind., 1958; Cin- nomination in 1852; resumed the practice of law in Abbe- cinnati Bible College, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1959-1960; United ville; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in States Army, 1957-1958; businessman; member of the Indi- 1868; died in Abbeville, S.C., October 30, 1883; interment ana state house of representatives, 1967-1968 and 1977- in Episcopal Cemetery. 1980; member of the Indiana state senate, 1969-1972 and 1981-1982; unsuccessful candidate for the United States BURTNESS, Olger Burton, a Representative from Congress in 1970; elected as a Republican to the Ninety- North Dakota; born on a farm near Mekinock, Grand Forks eighth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, County, N.Dak., March 14, 1884; attended the country 1983-present); chair, Committee on Government Reform and school; was graduated from the academic department of the Oversight (One Hundred Fifth Congress); chair, Committee University of North Dakota at Grand Forks in 1906 and on Government Reform (One Hundred Sixth and One Hun- from its law department in 1907; was admitted to the bar dred Seventh Congresses). the same year and commenced practice in Grand Forks; Bibliography: Burton, Dan. ‘‘The House and Foreign Affairs: Making prosecuting attorney of Grand Forks County 1911-1916; del- the World Safe for Tyranny?’’ In A House of Ill Repute, edited by Dan egate to the Republican National Conventions in 1916, 1936, Renberg, 76-84. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987. Biographies 753

BURTON, Harold Hitz, a Senator from Ohio; born in BURTON, John Lowell (brother of Phillip Burton), a Jamaica Plain, Mass., June 22, 1888; attended the public Representative from California; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, schools; graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, December 15, 1932; graduated from Lincoln High School, in 1909, and from the law department of Harvard University San Francisco, Calif., 1950; A.B., San Francisco State Col- in 1912; admitted to the bar in 1912 and commenced prac- lege, San Francisco, Calif., 1954; LL.B., University of San tice in Cleveland, Ohio; assistant attorney for a power com- Francisco Law School, San Francisco, Calif., 1960; United pany in Salt Lake City, Utah 1914-1916 and attorney for States Army, 1954-1956; admitted to the California bar, a power company in Boise, Idaho 1916-1917; during the 1961; lawyer, private practice; member of the California First World War served in the army as lieutenant, and state legislature, 1965-1974; chairman, California state later as captain, in 1917 and 1918; resumed the practice Democratic Party, 1973-1974; delegate, Democratic National of law in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1919; instructor in Western Convention, 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1980; elected as a Demo- Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 1923-1925; member of crat to the Ninety-third Congress, by special election, to the board of education of East Cleveland in 1928 and 1929; fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States member, State house of representatives 1929; director of Representative William S. Mailliard, and reelected to the law of Cleveland 1929-1932; mayor of Cleveland 1935-1940; four succeeding Congresses (June 4, 1974-January 3, 1983); elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1940 was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-eighth Con- and served from January 3, 1941, until his resignation on gress in 1982; resumed the practice of law; member of the September 30, 1945; associate justice of the Supreme Court California state senate, 1996-2004; is a resident of San Fran- of the United States from 1945 until his retirement October cisco, Calif. 13, 1958; was a resident of Cleveland, Ohio; died in George- town University Hospital, Washington, D.C., October 28, BURTON, Joseph Ralph, a Senator from Kansas; born 1964; cremated at Highland Park Cemetery, Cleveland, near Mitchell, Lawrence County, Ind., November 16, 1852; Ohio. attended the common schools, Franklin (Ind.) College, and Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Hudon, Edward. The DePauw University at Greencastle; studied law; admitted Occasional Papers of Mr. Justice Burton. Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin Col- to the bar in 1875 and commenced practice in Princeton, lege, 1969; U.S. Supreme Court. Proceedings of the Bar and Officers of the Ind.; moved to Abilene, Dickinson County, Kans., in 1878; Supreme Court of the United States, May 24, 1965. Proceedings before the member, State house of representatives 1882-1886; ap- Supreme Court of the United States May 24, 1965. In Memory of Harold pointed a member of the World’s Fair Columbian Commis- H. Burton. Washington: 1965. sion at Chicago in 1893, representing Kansas; elected as BURTON, Hiram Rodney, a Representative from Dela- a Republican to the United States Senate and served from ware; born in Lewes, Sussex County, Del., November 13, March 4, 1901, until June 4, 1906, when he resigned; chair- 1841; attended the public schools and St. Peter’s Academy man, Committee on Forest Reservations and Game Protec- at Lewes; taught for two years in the schools of Sussex tion (Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses); returned County; engaged in the dry goods business in Washington, to Abilene, Kans., and engaged in the newspaper business; D.C., 1862-1865; was graduated from the medical depart- died in Los Angeles, Calif., February 27, 1923; was cremated ment of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in and the ashes deposited in the columbarium of the Los 1868 and practiced in Frankford, Del., from 1868 until 1872, Angeles Crematory Association; ashes removed in 1928 for when he moved to Lewes, Del.; deputy collector of customs burial in Burton family plot in Abilene Cemetery in Abilene, for the port of Lewes 1877-1888; acting assistant surgeon Kansas. in the United States Marine Hospital Service 1890-1893, stationed at Lewes; unsuccessful candidate for the State BURTON, Laurence Junior, a Representative from senate in 1898; delegate to the Republican National Conven- Utah; born in Ogden, Weber County, Utah, October 30, tions in 1896, 1900, and 1908; elected as a Republican to 1926; graduated from Ogden High School in 1944; enlisted the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses (March 4, 1905- in the United States Navy Air Corps and served from Janu- March 3, 1909); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in ary 1945 to July 1946; graduated from Weber College at 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress; resumed the practice of Ogden, Utah, in 1948, from the University of Utah at Salt medicine in Lewes, Del.; director of Lewes National Bank; Lake City in 1951, and from Utah State University at Logan died in Lewes, June 17, 1927; interment in St. Paul’s Epis- in 1956; took postgraduate work at Georgetown and George copal Churchyard, Georgetown, Sussex County, Del. Washington Universities, Washington, D.C., in 1957 and 1958; public relations director and athletic manager at BURTON, Hutchins Gordon (nephew of Robert Burton), Weber College, 1948-1956; regional director for American a Representative from North Carolina; born in Virginia in College Public Relations Association in 1954 and 1955; edi- 1782; when three years of age his father died and he was tor of National Junior College Athletic Association magazine, sent to Granville County, where he was reared by his uncle, 1951-1961; legislative assistant to U.S. Representative Col. Robert Burton; moved to Mecklenburg County, N.C., in 1957 and 1958; assistant professor in 1803; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1806 and of political science at Weber College, 1958-1960; administra- practiced; member of the State house of commons in 1809; tive assistant to Utah Governor George Dewey Clyde, 1960- elected attorney general of North Carolina in 1810 and 1962; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1968; elect- served until his resignation in November 1816; moved to ed as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth and to the three Halifax, N.C., in 1816, and again elected a member of the succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1971); State house of commons in 1817; elected to the Sixteenth, was not a candidate for reelection in 1970, but was an Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Congresses and served from unsuccessful nominee in 1970 to the United States Senate; December 6, 1819, until March 23, 1824, when he resigned; is a resident of Ogden, Utah. Governor of North Carolina 1824-1827; resumed the practice of law in Halifax; was the host of General Lafayette when BURTON, Phillip (brother of John Lowell Burton and the latter visited Raleigh during his tour of the United husband of Sala Burton), a Representative from California; States in 1825; died while on a visit to relatives in Iredell born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, June 1, 1926; County, N.C., April 21, 1836; interment in Unity Church- attended Washington High School, Milwaukee, Wis.; grad- yard, Beattys Ford, Lincoln County, N.C. uated from George Washington High School, Richmond Dis- 754 Biographical Directory

trict, Calif., 1944; B.A., University of Southern California, member of the National Monetary Commission 1908-1912; Los Angeles, Calif., 1947; LL.B., Golden Gate Law School, elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and San Francisco, Calif., 1952; lawyer, private practice; admit- served from March 4, 1909, to March 3, 1915; was not a ted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, candidate for renomination in 1914; chairman, Committee 1956; United States Air Force, World War II and the Korean on Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Sixty-first conflict; member of the California state assembly, 1956-1964; and Sixty-second Congresses); engaged in banking in New represented the United States at the Atlantic Treaty Asso- York City; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and ciation Conference in France, 1959; delegate, California to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March State Democratic convention, 1968-1982; delegate, Demo- 4, 1921, until his resignation on December 15, 1928; did cratic National Convention, 1968 and 1970; elected as a not seek renomination, having become a candidate for Sen- Democrat to the Eighty-eighth Congress, by special election, ator; appointed by President Warren Harding as a member to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States of the World War Debt Funding Commission in 1922; chair- Representative John F. Shelley, and reelected to the ten man of the United States delegation to the conference for succeeding Congresses (February 18, 1964-April 10, 1983); the control of international traffic in arms at Geneva, Swit- died on April 10, 1983, in San Francisco, Calif.; cremated; zerland, in 1925; elected on November 6, 1928, as a Repub- ashes interred in the National Cemetery of the Presidio, lican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused San Francisco, Calif. by the death of Frank B. Willis and served from December Bibliography: Jacobs, John. A Rage for Justice: The Passion and Poli- 15, 1928, until his death in Washington, D.C., October 28, tics of Phillip Burton. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. 1929; funeral services were held in the Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in Lake View Cemetery, BURTON, Robert (uncle of Hutchins Gordon Burton), Cleveland, Ohio. a Delegate from North Carolina; born near Chase City, Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- Mecklenburg County, Va., October 20, 1747; attended pri- ography; Crissey, Forrest. Theodore E. Burton, American Statesman. Cleve- vate schools; moved to Granville County, N.C., in 1775; en- land: World Publishing Company, 1956; Stay, Clarence. ’Theodore E. Bur- gaged as a planter; served in the Revolutionary Army and ton on Navigation and Conservation: His Role as Chairman of the Com- as quartermaster general attained the rank of colonel; mem- mittee on Rivers and Harbors, 1898-1909.’ Ph.D. dissertation, Case West- ber of the Governor’s council in 1783 and 1784; Member ern Reserve University, 1975. of the Continental Congress in 1787; member of the commis- sion to establish the boundary line between the States of BURWELL, William Armisted, a Representative from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia in 1801; died Virginia; born near Boydton, Mecklenburg County, Va., on in Granville (now Vance) County, N.C., May 31, 1825; inter- March 15, 1780; was graduated from the College of William ment on his estate, ‘‘Montpelier,’’ at Williamsboro (now Hen- and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; moved to Franklin County derson), Vance County, N.C. in 1802; member of the State house of delegates, 1804-1806; private secretary to President Jefferson; elected as a Repub- BURTON, Sala Galante (wife of Phillip Burton), a Rep- lican to the Ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by resentative from California; born Sala Galante in Bialystock, the resignation of Christopher Clark; reelected to the Tenth Poland, April 1, 1925; attended public schools in San Fran- and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from De- cisco and San Francisco University, San Francisco, Calif.; cember 1, 1806, until his death in Washington, D.C., Feb- associate director, California Public Affairs Institute, 1948- ruary 16, 1821; interment in Congressional Cemetery. 1950; vice president, California Democratic Council, 1951- Bibliography: Gawalt, Gerald W., ed. ‘‘’Strict Truth’: The Narrative of 1954; president, San Francisco Democratic Women’s Forum, William Armisted Burwell.’’ Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 101 (January 1993): 103-32. 1957-1959; delegate to Democratic National Conventions, 1956, 1976, 1980, and 1984; elected as a Democrat to the BUSBEY, Fred Ernst, a Representative from Illinois; Ninety-eighth Congress by special election to fill the vacancy born in Tuscola, Douglas County, Ill., February 8, 1895; caused by the death of her husband, United States Rep- attended the public schools, Armour Institute of Technology, resentative Phillip Burton; reelected to the two succeeding Chicago, Ill., and Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.; Congresses (June 21, 1983-February 1, 1987); died on Feb- during the First World War enlisted September 24, 1917, ruary 1, 1987, in Washington, D.C.; interment in the Pre- in the United States Regular Army and served overseas sidio of San Francisco. as a sergeant until after the Armistice, when he was made a battalion sergeant major in the One Hundred and Twenty- BURTON, Theodore Elijah, a Representative and a fourth Field Artillery, Thirty-third Division, being dis- Senator from Ohio; born in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, charged June 8, 1919; in 1930 engaged in the investment Ohio, December 20, 1851; attended the public schools, Grand brokerage business in Chicago, Ill.; elected as a Republican River Institute, Austinburg, Ohio, and Iowa College, to the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943-January Grinnell, Iowa; graduated from Oberlin (Ohio) College in 3, 1945); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to 1872; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1875 and the Seventy-ninth Congress; elected in 1946 to the Eightieth commenced practice in Cleveland, Ohio; elected as a Repub- Congress (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful lican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; 1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890; declined elected to the Eighty-second and Eighty-third Congresses to be a candidate for the Republican nomination to Congress (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1955); unsuccessful candidate in 1892; elected to the Fifty-fourth and to the seven suc- for reelection in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress; re- ceeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1895, until sumed the investment brokerage business until his retire- his resignation, effective March 3, 1909, having been elected ment in 1958; resided in Cocoa Beach, Fla., until his death United States Senator; chairman, Committee on Rivers and there on February 11, 1966; interment in Mount Hope Cem- Harbors (Fifty-sixth through Sixtieth Congresses); chosen a etery, Chicago, Ill. member of the American group of the Interparliamentary Union in 1904; appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt BUSBY, George Henry, a Representative from Ohio; as chairman of the Inland Waterways Commission 1907- born in Davistown, Pa., June 10, 1794; attended the public 1908 and of the National Waterways Commission 1908-1912; schools; moved to Ohio in 1810 with his father, who settled Biographies 755

in Royalton, Fairfield County; engaged in the general mer- from Texas and a Vice President of the United States and cantile business; major of militia in the War of 1812; moved 41st President of the United States; born in Milton, Suffolk to Marion County in 1823 and helped organize the town County, Mass., June 12, 1924; graduated, Phillips Academy, of Marion, where he continued mercantile pursuits; clerk Andover, Mass. 1942; graduated Yale University 1948; lieu- of the Marion County courts and clerk of the supreme court tenant (jg.) United States Navy 1942-1945; formed Bush- 1824-1828; recorder of deeds 1831-1835; elected as a Demo- Overby Oil Development, Inc., Midland, Tex. 1951; helped crat to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March organize Zapata Petroleum Corp., Midland, Tex. 1953, and 3, 1853); was not a candidate for renomination in 1852; first president of Zapata Off-Shore Co., Midland, Tex. 1954; resumed mercantile pursuits; member of the State senate unsuccessful nominee in 1964 to the United States Senate; 1853-1855; probate judge of Marion County from 1866 until elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth Congress; reelected his death in Marion, Ohio, August 22, 1869; interment in to the Ninety-first Congress (January 3, 1967-January 3, Marion Cemetery. 1971); was not a candidate for reelection in 1970 to the House of Representatives but was an unsuccessful candidate BUSBY, Thomas Jefferson, a Representative from Mis- for election to the United States Senate; United States Am- sissippi; born near Short, Tishomingo County, Miss., July bassador to the United Nations 1971-1973; chairman, Re- 26, 1884; attended the common schools of his native city, publican National Committee 1973-1974; chief United States Oakland College, Yale, Miss., and Iuka Normal College at liaison officer, People’s Republic of China 1974-1976; direc- Iuka, Miss., taught in the public schools of Tishomingo, tor, Central Intelligence Agency 1976-1977; unsuccessful Alcorn, and Chickasaw Counties, Miss., 1903-1908; was candidate for the Republican nomination for President of graduated from the George Robertson Christian College, the United States in 1980, but was elected Vice President Henderson, Tenn., in 1905 and from the law department of the United States on the Republican ticket with President of the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1909; was ad- Ronald Reagan, November 4, 1980, and reelected 1984; Vice mitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice of law President of the United States 1981-1989; elected President at Houston, Miss.; prosecuting attorney of Chickasaw Coun- of the United States in 1988, and was inaugurated on Janu- ty 1912-1920; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and ary 20, 1989; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1992; to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-January is a resident of Houston, Tex. 3, 1935); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934; Bibliography: Bush, George. Heartbeart: George Bush in his Own resumed the practice of law in Houston, Miss., until his Words. New York: Citadel Press, 2003; King, Nicholas. George Bush: A Bi- death there on October 18, 1964; interment in Houston Cem- ography. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1980. etery. BUSH, Prescott Sheldon (father of George Herbert BUSEY, Samuel Thompson, a Representative from Illi- Walker Bush, grandfather of President George W. Bush), nois; born in Greencastle, Putnam County, Ind., November a Senator from Connecticut; born in Columbus, Franklin 16, 1835; moved with his parents to Urbana, Ill.; attended County, Ohio, May 15, 1895; attended the Douglas School the public schools; studied law; attended commercial college of Columbus, Ohio, and St. George’s School, Newport, R.I., and law lectures in 1859 and 1860; during the Civil War 1908-1913; graduated from Yale University in 1917; enlisted served as first sergeant and then first lieutenant of the in Connecticut National Guard in 1916 and served as cap- Urbana Zouaves in 1861 and 1862; town collector in 1862; tain of Field Artillery in American Expeditionary Forces second lieutenant in the recruiting service in June 1862 1917-1919; engaged in hardware business as a warehouse and helped to organize the Seventy-sixth Regiment, Illinois clerk in St. Louis, Mo.; moved to Greenwich, Conn., in 1924; Volunteer Infantry; captain of Company B of that regiment engaged in banking business in New York City 1926; moder- June 22, 1862; lieutenant colonel August 22, 1862; colonel ator, Greenwich Representative Town Meeting 1935-1952; January 7, 1863; brevetted brigadier general of Volunteers trustee, Yale University; unsuccessful Republican candidate April 9, 1865; mustered out of the service July 22, 1865, for the United States Senate in 1950; elected on November in Chicago, Ill.; engaged in banking from 1867 to 1888; 4, 1952, as a Republican to the United States Senate to mayor of Urbana 1880-1889; elected as a Democrat to the fill the vacancy caused by the death of James O’Brien Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); unsuc- McMahon; reelected in 1956 and served from November 4, cessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-third 1952, to January 2, 1963; was not a candidate for reelection Congress; again engaged in banking; died in Urbana, Ill., in 1962; resumed his career in the banking and investment August 12, 1909; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. field; died in New York City, October 8, 1972; interment in Putnam Cemetery, Greenwich, Conn. BUSH, Alvin Ray, a Representative from Pennsylvania; Bibliography: American National Biography; Herskowitz, Mickey. Duty, born on a farm in Boggs Township, Clearfield County, Pa., Honor, Country: The Story and Legacy of . Nashville: Rut- June 4, 1893; attended the public schools; at the age of ledge Hill Press, 2003. thirteen started work as a laborer in Pennsylvania coal mines and later was an apprentice in a machine shop; dur- BUSHFIELD, Harlan John (husband of Vera C. ing the First World War served overseas as a corporal with Bushfield), a Senator from South Dakota; born in Atlantic, the Five Hundred and Forty-first Motor Truck Company; Cass County, Iowa, August 6, 1882; moved with his parents established an automobile repair business in Philipsburg, to South Dakota in 1883; attended the public schools in Pa.; purchased a bus line serving Philipsburg and neigh- Miller, S.Dak., and Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, boring communities, later becoming president and general S.Dak. 1899-1901; graduated from the Minnesota University manager of the Williamsport Transportation Co.; operated Law School at Minneapolis in 1904; admitted to the bar a dairy farm in Lycoming County, Pa.; director of Lowry the same year and commenced practice in Miller, S.Dak.; Electric Co. and Muncy Valley Hospital; elected as a Repub- Governor of South Dakota 1939-1942; elected as a Repub- lican to the Eighty-second and to the four succeeding Con- lican to the United States Senate in 1942 and served from gresses and served from January 3, 1951, until his death January 3, 1943, until his death in Miller, S.Dak., Sep- in Williamsport, Pa., November 5, 1959; interment in Twin tember 27, 1948; interment in the G.A.R. Cemetery. Hills Cemetery, near Montoursville, Pa. Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Harlan John Bushfield. 81st Cong., 2nd sess., 1948. Washington, D.C.: Government BUSH, George Herbert Walker (son of Prescott Sheldon Printing Office, 1950; Pressler, Larry. ‘‘Harlan J. Bushfield.’’ In U.S. Sen- Bush, father of President George W. Bush), a Representative ators from the Prairie, pp. 124-28. Vermillion, SD: Dakota Press, 1982. 756 Biographical Directory

BUSHFIELD, Vera Cahalan (wife of Harlan J. County, S.C., and graduated from South Carolina College Bushfield), a Senator from South Dakota; born in Miller, (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1817; Hand County, S.Dak., August 9, 1889; attended the public studied law; admitted to the bar in 1818 and practiced in schools; graduated from Stout Institute, Menominee, Wis., Columbia, Edgefield, Lexington, Barnwell, and Newberry; in 1912; also attended Dakota Wesleyan University and the member, State house of representatives; member, State sen- University of Minnesota; appointed on October 6, 1948, as ate 1824-1833; aide on the staff of the Governor 1824; ap- a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy pointed judge of the session court in 1833; judge of the caused by the death of her husband, Harlan J. Bushfield, State court of common pleas 1835-1846; appointed and sub- and served from October 6, 1948, until her resignation on sequently elected as a States Rights Democrat to the United December 26, 1948; died in Fort Collins, Colo., April 16, States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation 1976; interment in the G.A.R. Cemetery, Miller, S.Dak. of George McDuffie; reelected in 1848 and again in 1854 Bibliography: Pressler, Larry. ‘‘Vera Bushfield.’’ In U.S. Senators from as a Democrat and served from December 4, 1846, until the Prairie, pp. 129-30. Vermillion, S. Dak.: Dakota Press, 1982. his death near Edgefield, S.C., May 25, 1857; chairman, Committee on Judiciary (Thirtieth through Thirty-fifth Con- BUSHNELL, Allen Ralph, a Representative from Wis- gress); interment in Big Creek Butler Churchyard, consin; born in Hartford, Trumbull County, Ohio, July 18, Edgefield, S.C. 1833; attended the public schools and the academies of Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- Oberlin and Hiram, Ohio; moved to Wisconsin in 1854 and ography; Herriott, F.I. ‘‘James W. Grimes Versus the Southrons.’’ Annals settled in Platteville; studied law; was admitted to the bar of Iowa 15 (July 1926): 323-57; (October 1926): 403-32. in 1857 and commenced practice in Platteville; elected dis- trict attorney of Grant County in 1860; resigned to enter BUTLER, Benjamin Franklin (grandfather of Butler the Union Army in August 1861; served as first lieutenant Ames and father-in-law of Adelbert Ames), a Representative and afterwards as captain of Company C, Seventh Regiment, from Massachusetts; born in Deerfield, N.H., November 5, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; member of the ; 1818; moved with his mother to Lowell, Mass., in 1828; moved to Lancaster, Wis., in 1864; district attorney of Grant attended high school and Exeter Academy, and was grad- County in 1864; member of the State assembly in 1872; uated from Waterville College (now Colby College), elected first mayor of Lancaster in 1875; United States dis- Waterville, Maine, in 1838; studied law; was admitted to trict attorney for the western district of Wisconsin 1886- the bar in 1840 and commenced practice in Lowell, Mass.; 1890; moved to Madison, Wis., in 1891; elected as a Demo- member of the State house of representatives in 1853; crat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, served in the State senate in 1859; delegate to the Demo- 1893); was not a candidate for renomination in 1892; re- cratic National Conventions at Charleston and Baltimore sumed the practice of law in Madison, Wis., and died there in 1860; entered the Union Army April 17, 1861, as a briga- March 29, 1909; interment in Hillside Cemetery, Lancaster. dier general; promoted to major general May 16, 1861, and assigned to the command of Fort Monroe and the Depart- BUSHONG, Robert Grey (grandson of Anthony ment of Eastern Virginia; resigned November 30, 1865; Ellmaker Roberts), a Representative from Pennsylvania; elected as a Republican to the Fortieth and to the three born in Reading, Berks County, Pa., June 10, 1883; attended succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1875); chair- Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; was graduated from Yale man, Committee on Revision of the Laws (Forty-second Con- University in 1903 and from the law school of Columbia gress), Committee on the Judiciary (Forty-third Congress); University, New York City, in 1906; was admitted to the one of the managers appointed by the House of Representa- bar in 1906 and commenced practice in Reading, Pa.; mem- tives in 1868 to conduct the impeachment proceedings ber of the Pennsylvania house of representatives in 1908 against Andrew Johnson, President of the United States; and 1909; president judge of the orphans’ court of Berks unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for County in 1914 and 1915; delegate to the Republican Na- Governor in 1871 and 1872 and for reelection to the Forty- tional Conventions in 1916 and 1924; elected as a Repub- fourth Congress in 1874; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress lican to the Seventieth Congress (March 4, 1927-March 3, (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); declined to be a candidate 1929); was not a candidate for renomination in 1928; re- for renomination; unsuccessful candidate for Governor as sumed the practice of law in Reading, Pa., and resided in an independent in 1878 and as a Democrat in 1879; elected Sinking Springs, Pa.; died in Reading, Pa., April 6, 1951; Governor in 1882 by the combined efforts of the Greenback interment in Charles Evans Cemetery. and Democratic Parties; unsuccessful candidate for Presi- dent of the United States on the Greenback and Anti-Monop- BUSTAMANTE, Albert Garza, a Representative from olist ticket in 1884; died while attending court in Wash- Texas; born in Asherton, Dimmit County, Tex., April 8, ington, D.C., January 11, 1893; interment in Hildreth Ceme- 1935; attended the public schools and was graduated from tery, Lowell, Mass. Asherton High School in 1954; paratrooper in the U.S. Army Bibliography: Butler, Benjamin F. Autobiography and Personal 1954-1956; studied a liberal arts course at San Antonio Col- Reminiscences. Boston: A. M. Thayer, 1892; Nash, Howard P. Stormy Pe- lege 1956-1958 and received a degree in secondary education trel: The Life and Times of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, 1818-1893. 1969. Re- from Sul Ross State College in Alpine, Tex., in 1961; school print, Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1975; teacher and coach 1961-1968; assistant to Congressman Trefousse, Hans L. Ben Butler: The South Called Him Beast! 1957. Re- Henry Gonzalez 1968-1971; member of the Bexar County print, New York: Octagon Books, 1974. Commission 1973-1978; Bexar County judge 1979-1984; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-ninth and to the three BUTLER, Chester Pierce, a Representative from Penn- succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1985-January 3, 1993); sylvania; born in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pa., March unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1992 to the One 21, 1798; attended Wilkes-Barre Academy and was grad- Hundred Third Congress; is a resident of San Antonio, Tex. uated from Princeton College in 1817; trustee of Wilkes- Barre Academy 1818-1838 and served as secretary; studied BUTLER, Andrew Pickens (son of William Butler and law at Litchfield Law School; was admitted to the bar in uncle of Matthew Calbraith Butler), a Senator from South 1820 and commenced practice in Wilkes-Barre; register and Carolina; born in Edgefield, S.C., November 18, 1796; at- recorder of Luzerne County 1821-1824; member of the State tended Doctor Waddell’s Academy at Willington, Abbeville house of representatives in 1832, 1838, 1839, and again Biographies 757

in 1843; elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty- tended the public schools and Old Central High School, Buf- first Congresses and served from March 4, 1847, until his falo, N.Y.; from boyhood was employed in waterfront indus- death in Philadelphia, Pa., October 5, 1850; interment in tries in Buffalo; held many offices in longshoremen’s, grain Hollenbeck Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. elevator employees’, and electrical workers’ unions; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh Congress to fill the BUTLER, Ezra, a Representative from Vermont; born vacancy caused by the death of Pius L. Schwert; reelected in Lancaster, Worcester County, Mass., September 24, 1763; to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Con- moved with his parents to West Windsor, Vt., in 1770; en- gresses and served from April 22, 1941, to January 3, 1949; gaged in agricultural pursuits in Claremont, N.H.; served unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty- in the Revolutionary War for a short time; moved to Water- first Congress; sales manager of Fire Equipment Sales Co., bury, Vt., in 1785; studied law; was admitted to the bar and estimator for Beacon Electrical Engineering and Con- and commenced practice in Waterbury, Vt., in 1786; town struction Co., Buffalo, N.Y.; elected to the Eighty-second clerk in 1790; one of the first three town selectmen; member Congress (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1953); unsuccessful of the State house of representatives 1794-1797, 1799-1804, candidate for renomination in 1952; died in Buffalo, N.Y., 1807, and 1808; served in the executive council for fifteen August 13, 1953; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery. years; first judge of the Chittenden County Court 1803-1806; chief justice 1806-1811; when Jefferson County (which has BUTLER, John Marshall, a Senator from Maryland; since become Washington County) was formed in 1812 he born in Baltimore, Md., July 21, 1897; attended the public schools; during the First World War enlisted in the United was elected chief justice and held the position continuously, States Army 1917-1919; student, Johns Hopkins University with the exception of his congressional service, until 1825; 1919 and 1921, and graduated from the University of Mary- elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress (March land Law School in 1926; admitted to the bar in 1926 and 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); member of the State constitutional commenced the practice of law in Baltimore, Md.; member convention in 1822; Governor of Vermont 1826-1828; died of City Service Commission of Baltimore 1947-1949; elected in Waterbury, Washington County, Vt., July 12, 1838; inter- as a Republican in 1950 to the United States Senate; re- ment in Waterbury Cemetery. elected in 1956 and served from January 3, 1951, to January BUTLER, Hugh Alfred, a Senator from Nebraska; born 2, 1963; was not a candidate for reelection in 1962; resided on a farm near Missouri Valley, Harrison County, Iowa, in Baltimore, Md., until his death in Rocky Mount, N.C., February 28, 1878; attended the public schools and was March 14, 1978; interment in Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikes- graduated from Doane College at Crete, Nebr., in 1900; con- ville, Md. struction engineer with the Chicago, Burlington Quincy Rail- BUTLER, Josiah, a Representative from New Hamp- road 1900-1908; member of the city board of Curtis, Nebr. shire; born in Pelham, N.H., December 4, 1779; attended 1908-1913; engaged in the flour-milling and grain business the Londonderry and Atkinson Academies and was in- 1908-1940; member of the board of education of Omaha, structed by private tutors; was graduated from Harvard Uni- Nebr.; Republican National committeeman for Nebraska versity in 1803; taught school in Virginia for three years; 1936-1940; elected as a Republican to the United States studied law; was admitted to the bar of Virginia in 1807; Senate in 1940; reelected in 1946 and again in 1952 and returned to Pelham, N.H., and commenced practice in 1807; served from January 3, 1941, until his death in the naval moved to Deerfield in 1809; sheriff of Rockingham County hospital at Bethesda, Md., July 1, 1954; chairman, Com- 1810-1813; clerk of the court of common pleas; unsuccessful mittee on Public Lands (Eightieth Congress), Committee on candidate for election in 1812 to the Thirteenth Congress; Interior and Insular Affairs (Eighty-third Congress); inter- member of the State house of representatives in 1815 and ment in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Nebr. 1816; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress Bibliography: American National Biography; Paul, Justis F. Senator and reelected to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses Hugh Butler and Nebraska Republicanism. Lincoln: Nebraska State Histor- (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1823); chairman, Committee on ical Society, 1976; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Hugh Alfred But- Agriculture (Seventeenth Congress); associate justice of the ler. 83d Cong., 2d sess., 1954. Washington: Government Printing Office, State court of common pleas 1825-1835; died in Deerfield, 1955. Rockingham County, N.H., October 27, 1854; interment in BUTLER, James Joseph, a Representative from Mis- Granite Cemetery, South Deerfield, N.H. souri; born in St. Louis, Mo., August 29, 1862; attended BUTLER, Manley Caldwell (great grandson of James the public schools; served an apprenticeship as a blacksmith, A. Walker), a Representative from Virginia; born in Roa- and worked at that trade for several years; was graduated noke, Va., June 2, 1925; graduated from Jefferson Senior from St. Louis (Mo.) University in 1881; studied law at High School, Roanoke, Va., 1942; A.B., University of Rich- Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.; was admitted to the mond (Va.), 1948; LL.B., University of Virginia Law School, bar in 1884 and commenced practice in St. Louis, Mo.; Charlottesville, 1950; ensign, United States Navy, 1943- served as city attorney of St. Louis 1886-1894; presented 1946; admitted to the Virginia bar in 1950 and commenced credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Fifty-sev- practice in Roanoke; lawyer, private practice; elected to Vir- enth Congress and served from March 4, 1901, until June ginia house of delegates from Roanoke, 1962-1971, serving 28, 1902, when the seat was declared vacant; subsequently as chairman of the joint Republican caucus, 1964-1966, and presented credentials as a Member-elect to fill the vacancy as minority leader, 1966-1971; elected simultaneously as a thus caused and served from November 4, 1902, until Feb- Republican to the Ninety-second and Ninety-third Congress ruary 26, 1903, when he was succeeded by George C. R. by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- Wagoner, who contested his election; elected to the Fifty- tion of United States Representative Richard H. Poff, and eighth Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); delegate reelected to the four succeeding Congresses (November 7, to the Democratic National Conventions in 1904 and 1908; 1972- January 3, 1983); was not a candidate for reelection resumed the practice of law in St. Louis, Mo., and died to the Ninety-eighth Congress in 1982; resumed the practice there May 31, 1917; interment in Calvary Cemetery. of law in Roanoke; is a resident of Roanoke, Va. BUTLER, John Cornelius, a Representative from New BUTLER, Marion, a Senator from North Carolina; born York; born in Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y., July 2, 1887; at- near Clinton, Sampson County, N.C., May 20, 1863; grad- 758 Biographical Directory

uated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill BUTLER, Pierce, a Delegate and a Senator from South in 1885; taught school for three years; moved to Clinton, Carolina; born in County Carlow, Ireland, July 11, 1744; N.C., in 1888 and became editor and publisher of the Clinton pursued preparatory studies; came to America in 1758 as Caucasian; moved to Raleigh in 1894, but continued the an officer in the British Army; resigned his commission prior publication of the paper; elected to the State senate in 1890; to the Revolutionary War and settled in Charles Town (now president of the National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Charleston), S.C.; planter; aided the American cause during Union in 1894 and 1895; chairman of the People’s Party the Revolutionary War; delegate to the Continental Congress State committee in 1894; trustee and member of the execu- in 1787; member of the convention which framed the Federal tive committee of the University of North Carolina 1891- Constitution in 1787; elected to the United States Senate 1899; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1899 and com- in 1789 for the term ending March 3, 1793; reelected Decem- menced practice in Raleigh, N.C.; elected as a Populist to ber 5, 1792, and served from March 4, 1789, to October the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1895, 25, 1796, when he resigned; again elected to the United to March 3, 1901; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of 1901; chairman, Committee on Organization, Conduct, and John Ewing Colhoun and served from November 4, 1802, Expenditures of Executive Departments (Fifty-fourth and until his resignation November 21, 1804; died in Philadel- Fifty-fifth Congresses); chairman of the Populist National phia, Pa., February 15, 1822; interment in Christ Church- Executive Committee 1896-1904; affiliated with the Repub- yard, Philadelphia, Pa. lican Party in 1904; assisted in organizing the Cotton and Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- Tobacco Cooperative Marketing Association of the South in ography; Coglan, Francis. ‘‘Pierce Butler, 1744-1822, First Senator from 1923 and 1924; resumed the practice of law in Washington, South Carolina.’’ South Carolina Historical Magazine 78 (April 1977): 104- D.C.; died June 3, 1938, in Takoma Park, Md., where he 19; Sikes, Lewright B. The Public Life of Pierce Butler, South Carolina Statesman. Washington: University Press of America, 1979. had been confined in a hospital; interment in Clinton Ceme- tery, Clinton, N.C. BUTLER, Robert Reyburn (grandson of Roderick Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- Randum Butler), a Representative from Oregon; born in But- ography; Hunt, James L. and American Populism. Chapel ler, Johnson County, Tenn., September 24, 1881; attended Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. the public schools and Holly Springs College; was graduated BUTLER, Matthew Calbraith (son of William Butler from the law department of Cumberland University, Leb- [1759-1821] and nephew of Andrew Pickens Butler), a Sen- anon, Tenn., in 1903; was admitted to the bar and com- ator from South Carolina; born near Greenville, Greenville menced practice in Mountain City, Tenn.; moved to Condon, County, S.C., March 8, 1836; attended the local academy Oreg., in 1906 and resumed the practice of law; mayor of in Edgefield, S.C., and South Carolina College at Columbia; Condon, Oreg.; appointed circuit judge for the eleventh judi- studied law; admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced cial district of Oregon and served from February 1909 until practice in Edgefield; elected to the State house of represent- his retirement in January 1911; moved to The Dalles in atives in 1860; entered the Confederate Army as captain 1911 and resumed the practice of law; member of the State in June 1861 and served throughout the Civil War, attaining senate 1913-1917 and 1925-1929; elected on November 6, the rank of major general; again elected to the State house 1928, as a Republican to the Seventieth Congress to fill of representatives in 1866; unsuccessful candidate for lieu- the vacancy caused by the resignation of Nicholas J. Sinnott tenant governor of South Carolina in 1870; elected as a and on the same day was elected to the Seventy-first Con- Democrat to the United States Senate in 1876; reelected gress; reelected to the Seventy-second Congress and served in 1882 and again in 1888 and served from March 4, 1877, until his death; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 until March 3, 1895; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; to the Seventy-third Congress; died in Washington, D.C., chairman, Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment January 7, 1933; interment in the Odd Fellows Cemetery, (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Interstate Commerce The Dalles, Oreg. (Fifty-third Congress); resumed the practice of law in Wash- BUTLER, Roderick Randum (grandfather of Robert ington, D.C.; appointed major general of United States Vol- Reyburn Butler), a Representative from Tennessee; born in unteers during the Spanish-American War, and was one Wytheville, Va., April 9, 1827; bound as an apprentice and of the commissioners appointed to supervise the evacuation learned the tailor’s trade; moved to Taylorsville (now Moun- of Cuba by the Spanish forces in 1898; returned to Edgefield, tain City), Tenn.; attended night school; studied law; was S.C., and resumed the practice of law; died in Columbia, admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced practice in S.C., April 14, 1909; interment in Willow Brook Cemetery, Taylorsville; appointed postmaster of Taylorsville by Presi- Edgefield, S.C. dent Fillmore; major of the First Battalion of Tennessee Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- Militia; member of the State senate 1859-1863; during the ography; Brooks, Ulysses R. Butler and His Cavalry in the War of Seces- sion, 1861-1864. Columbia: State Co., 1909. Civil War served in the Union Army as lieutenant colonel of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, BUTLER, Mounce Gore, a Representative from Ten- from November 5, 1863, until April 25, 1864, when he was nessee; born in Gainesboro, Jackson County, Tenn., May honorably discharged; delegate to the Republican National 11, 1849; attended the common schools, Old Philomath Acad- Conventions in 1864, 1872 and 1876; delegate to the State emy, and the law department of Cumberland University, constitutional convention in 1865; county judge and judge Lebanon, Tenn.; was admitted to the bar in 1871 and com- of the first judicial circuit of Tennessee in 1865; chairman menced the practice of law in Gainesboro; delegate to all of the first State Republican executive committee of Ten- Democratic State conventions from 1872 to 1916; attorney nessee; delegate to the Baltimore Border State Convention; general for the fifth judicial circuit of Tennessee 1894-1902; elected as a Republican to the Fortieth and to the three elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-ninth Congress (March succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1875); chair- 4, 1905-March 3, 1907); unsuccessful candidate for renomi- man, Committee on the Militia (Forty-third Congress); cen- nation in 1906; resumed the practice of his profession in sured by the House of Representatives on March 16, 1870, Gainesboro, Jackson County, Tenn., and died there February for corruption in regard to an appointment to West Point; 13, 1917; interment in Gainesboro Cemetery. unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty- Biographies 759

fourth Congress; president of the Republican State conven- commenced practice in West Chester, Pa.; served as trustee tions in 1869 and 1882; member of the State house of rep- of the West Chester State Normal School 1885-1889 and resentatives 1879-1885; elected to the Fiftieth Congress again in 1927 and 1928; appointed judge of the fifteenth (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); was not a candidate for judicial district of Pennsylvania in 1888; unsuccessful can- renomination in 1888; resumed the practice of law; again didate for reelection in 1889; delegate to the Republican a member of the State senate 1893-1901; died in Mountain National Convention in 1892; elected as an Independent Re- City, Johnson County, Tenn., August 18, 1902; interment publican to the Fifty-fifth Congress and as a Republican in Mountain View Cemetery. to the fifteen succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, until his death in Washington, D.C., May 26, 1928; BUTLER, Sampson Hale, a Representative from South chairman, Committee on Pacific Railroads (Fifty-ninth Carolina; born near Ninety Six, Edgefield District, S.C., Jan- through Sixty-first Congresses), Committee on Naval Affiars uary 3, 1803; attended the country schools and South Caro- (Sixty-sixth through Seventieth Congresses); interment in lina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Co- Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, Pa. lumbia; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and Bibliography: West, Michael Allen. ‘‘Laying the Legislative Foundation: commenced practice in Edgefield, S.C.; moved to Barnwell, The House Naval Affairs Committee and the Construction of the Treaty S.C., and continued the practice of law; sheriff of Barnwell Navy, 1926-1934.’’ Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 1980. County 1832-1839; member of the State house of representa- tives 1832-1835; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth BUTLER, Walter Halben, a Representative from Iowa; and Twenty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, born in Springboro, Crawford County, Pa., February 13, 1839, until September 27, 1842, when he resigned; resumed 1852; moved to Minnesota in 1868 with his parents, who the practice of law; moved to Florida; died in Tallahassee, settled in Mankato, Blue Earth County; attended public and Fla., March 16, 1848; interment in a cemetery in that city. private schools, and was graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1875; studied law; was admitted BUTLER, Thomas, a Representative from Louisiana; to the bar in 1875 and commenced practice in Princeton, born near Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa., April 14, 1785; Green Lake County, Wis.; moved to Iowa in 1876 and taught attended the common schools and received a college edu- school at La Porte City until 1878 and at Manchester until cation in Pittsburgh, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the 1880; moved to West Union, Iowa, in 1883 and became bar in 1806 and commenced practice at Pittsburgh, Pa.; owner and publisher of the Fayette County Union; served moved to about 1807; admitted to the as superintendent of the tenth division, railway mail service, bar there in 1808; captain of a Cavalry troop in the Mis- at St. Paul, Minn., 1885-1889; returned to West Union, Iowa, sissippi Territory Militia in 1810; purchased land in the and resumed his former newspaper pursuits; elected as a parish of Feliciana, Orleans Territory and settled there in Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891- 1811; appointed parish judge December 14, 1812; appointed March 3, 1893); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection judge of the third district by Governor Claiborne of Lou- in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress; moved to Des Moines, isiana March 4, 1813; elected as a Republican to the Fif- Iowa, in 1897 and to Kansas City, Mo., in 1907; engaged teenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation in the real estate and loan business and, later, in banking; of Thomas B. Robertson; reelected to the Sixteenth Congress died in Kansas City, Mo., April 24, 1931; interment in Forest and served from November 16, 1818, to March 3, 1821; Hill Cemetery. unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1820; appointed special judge of the third judicial district in 1822 and again BUTLER, William (father of William Butler [1790-1850] in 1840; member of the Whig Party and afterwards affiliated and Andrew Pickens Butler and grandfather of Matthew with the American Party; owing to ill health declined to Calbraith Butler), a Representative from South Carolina; be a candidate for Congress in 1844; owner of sugar and born in Prince William County, Va., December 17, 1759; cotton plantations; president of the board of trustees of the attended grammar schools; moved to South Carolina; served Louisiana College, Jackson, La.; died in St. Louis, Mo., Au- in the Snow campaign under General Richardson in 1775 gust 7, 1847; interment on his plantation, ‘‘The Cottage,’’ and in Gen. Andrew Williamson’s expedition against the near St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, La. Cherokee Indians in 1776; lieutenant in Pulaski’s legion, under Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, in 1779; served under Gen. BUTLER, Thomas Belden, a Representative from Con- Andrew Pickens at the siege of Augusta in 1780, as captain necticut; born in Wethersfield, Conn., August 22, 1806; at- under General Henderson in 1781, and as captain of Mount- tended the common schools; was graduated from the medical ed Rangers under General Pickens in 1782; member of the department of Yale University in 1828 and commenced prac- State convention which adopted the Federal Constitution; tice in Norwalk, Conn.; member of the State house of rep- member of the State house of representatives in 1787-1795; resentatives 1832-1846; studied law; was admitted to the sheriff of the Ninety-sixth District in 1791; elected major bar in 1837 and commenced practice in Norwalk; served general of the upper division of State militia in 1796; elected in the State senate in 1847 and 1848; elected as a Whig as a Republican to the Seventh and to the five succeeding to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); Congresses (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1813); was not a can- unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1850 to the Thirty- didate for reelection; major general commanding the troops second Congress; judge of the superior court in 1855; ap- raised for the defense of South Carolina during the War pointed associate justice of the State supreme court in 1861 of 1812; retired to his plantation on the Saluda River, near and became chief justice of the same court in 1870; died Mount Willing, Edgefield County, S.C., and died there No- in Norwalk, Conn., June 8, 1873; interment in Norwalk vember 15, 1821; interment in the family burial ground Cemetery. at Butler Methodist Church, near Saluda, Edgefield (now Saluda) County, S.C. BUTLER, Thomas Stalker, a Representative from Penn- sylvania; born in Uwchland Township, Chester County, Pa., BUTLER, William (son of William Butler [1759-1821], November 4, 1855; attended the common schools, West Ches- brother of Andrew Pickens Butler, and father of Matthew ter State Normal School, and Wyer’s Academy, West Ches- Calbraith Butler), a Representative from South Carolina; ter, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1877 and born in the Edgefield District, S.C., near the present town 760 Biographical Directory

of Saluda, February 1, 1790; attended the common schools, BUTTERFIELD, George Kenneth, Jr. (G.K.), a Rep- and was graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia resentative from North Carolina; born in Wilson, Wilson in 1810; studied medicine and was licensed to practice; County, N.C., April 27, 1947; graduated from Charles H. served as a surgeon in the Battle of New Orleans during Darden High School, Wilson, N.C.; B.A., North Carolina the War of 1812; continued his service in the Navy until Central University, Durham, N.C., 1971; J.D., North Caro- June 6, 1820, when he resigned; elected as a Whig to the lina Central University School of Law, 1974; United States Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); Army, 1968-1970; lawyer, private practice; North Carolina agent of the Cherokee Indians from May 29, 1849, until resident superior court judge, 1988-2001; North Carolina his death in Fort Gibson, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), special superior court judge, 2002-2004; Justice of the North September 25, 1850; interment near Van Buren, Ark. Carolina state supreme court, 2001-2002; elected as a Demo- crat to the One Hundred and Eighth Congress, by special BUTLER, William Morgan, a Senator from Massachu- election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of setts; born in New Bedford, Mass., January 29, 1861; at- United States Representative Frank Ballance, (July 20, 2004 tended the public schools; studied law; admitted to the bar to present). in 1883; graduated from the law department of Boston Uni- versity in 1884; practiced law in New Bedford until 1895; BUTTERFIELD, Martin, a Representative from New member, State house of representatives 1890-1891; member, York; born in Westmoreland, N.H., December 8, 1790; at- State senate 1892-1895, serving as president in 1894 and tended the common schools; moved to Palmyra, Wayne 1895; moved to Boston, Mass., in 1895 and continued the County, N.Y., in 1828 and engaged in the hardware business practice of law until 1912, when he engaged in the manufac- and also in the manufacture of rope and cordage; presi- ture of cotton goods; member of the commission to revise dential elector on the Whig ticket in 1848; elected as a the statutes of Massachusetts 1896-1900; chairman of the Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859- Republican National Committee in 1924; appointed on No- March 3, 1861); chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Thir- vember 13, 1924, as a Republican to the United States Sen- ty-sixth Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomina- ate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Cabot tion in 1860; resumed his former business pursuits; died Lodge and served from November 13, 1924, to December in Palmyra, N.Y., August 6, 1866; interment in the Village 6, 1926, when a successor was elected; unsuccessful can- Cemetery. didate for election to fill the vacancy; chairman, Committee BUTTERWORTH, Benjamin, a Representative from on Patents (Sixty-ninth Congress); resumed his manufac- Ohio; born near Maineville, Warren County, Ohio, October turing interests; resided in Boston until his death there 22, 1837; attended the common schools of Warren County, on March 29, 1937; interment in Forest Hills Cemetery. the academy in Maineville, Ohio, and Ohio University in BUTLER, William Orlando, a Representative from Ken- Athens; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1861 and tucky; born in Jessamine County, Ky., April 19, 1791; moved commenced practice in Cincinnati, Ohio; appointed assistant with his parents to Maysville, Ky.; pursued preparatory United States district attorney in 1868; member of the State senate in 1874 and 1875; elected as a Republican to the studies; was graduated from Transylvania University, Lex- Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879- ington, Ky., in 1812; studied law at Lexington; during the March 3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 War of 1812 served as captain, and was brevetted major to the Forty-eighth Congress; delegate to the Republican for distinguished service in the Battle of New Orleans; aide National Convention in 1880; Regent of the Smithsonian to General Jackson in 1816 and 1817; was admitted to the Institution; appointed a commissioner of the Northern Pa- bar in 1817 and commenced practice at Carrollton, Ky.; cific Railroad by President Arthur in 1883; special Govern- member of the State house of representatives in 1817 and ment counsel to prosecute the South Carolina election cases 1818; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth and Twen- in 1883; elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first ty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); was Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1891); chairman, Com- not a candidate for reelection; during the war with Mexico mittee on Patents (Fifty-first Congress); was not a candidate was commissioned major general of Volunteers June 29, for renomination in 1890; resumed the practice of his profes- 1846; received the thanks of Congress and a sword for gal- sion in Washington, D.C.; served as Commissioner of Pat- lantry in the storming of Monterey, Mexico; unsuccessful ents from 1896 until his death in Thomasville, Ga., January Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1848; declined 16, 1898; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, appointment as Governor of Nebraska Territory in 1855; D.C. delegate to the peace convention held in Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the impend- BUTTON, Daniel Evan, a Representative from New ing war; died in Carrollton, Ky., August 6, 1880; interment York; born in Dunkirk, Chautauqua County, N.Y., November in a private burying ground at the foot of Butlers Hill, 1, 1917; graduated from Wilmington High School, Wil- near Carrollton, Ky. mington, Del., 1933; A.B., University of Delaware, Newark, Bibliography: Roberts, G.F. ‘‘William O. Butler.’’ Master’s thesis, Uni- Del., 1938; M.A., Columbia University, New York, N.Y., versity of Kentucky, 1962. 1939; author; journalist; assistant to the president of the State University of New York, 1952-1958; staffs of Univer- BUTMAN, Samuel, a Representative from Maine; born sity of Delaware and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; in Worcester, Worcester County, Mass., in 1788; moved to worked with newspapers in Wilmington, Del., and the Asso- Maine in 1804, and settled in Dixmont, Penobscot County; ciated Press in New York City, 1939-1947; executive editor engaged in agricultural pursuits; served as a captain in the of the Albany Times-Union, 1960-1966; elected as a Repub- War of 1812; member of the State constitutional convention lican to the Ninetieth and to the succeeding Congress (Janu- in 1820; member of the house of representatives of Maine ary 3, 1967-January 3, 1971); unsuccessful candidate for in 1822, 1826, and 1827; elected to the Twentieth and Twen- reelection to the Ninety-second Congress in 1970; editor, ty-first Congresses (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1831); county Science Digest magazine; is a resident of Delmar, N.Y. commissioner of Penobscot County in 1846; served in the State senate and was its president in 1853; died in Plym- BUTTZ, Charles Wilson, a Representative from South outh, Maine, October 9, 1864. Carolina; born in Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pa., Novem- Biographies 761

ber 16, 1837; moved with his parents to Buttzville, N.J., mentary language; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in in 1839; completed academic studies; studied law in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; was active in the organi- Belvidere, N.J.; entered the Union Army in 1861 as second zation of the National (Gold-Standard) Democratic Party in lieutenant in the Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry; was pro- 1896, and was chairman of its national committee 1896- moted to first lieutenant in 1862; was wounded in 1863; 1898; settled in Washington, D.C.; appointed by President resigned on account of impaired health in October 1863; McKinley in 1900 a member of the commission to codify received two brevet ranks from the President, one as captain the United States criminal laws and served until 1906; re- and the other as major, both dating May 1865; was admitted tired from the practice of law; died in Indianapolis, Ind., to the bar in 1863 and commenced the practice of law in October 21, 1927; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery, Wash- Norfolk, Va.; delegate to the Republican National Conven- ington, Ind. tion in 1864; appointed director of the Exchange Bank of Virginia in 1864; Commonwealth attorney for King William BYRD, Adam Monroe, a Representative from Mis- County in 1866; moved to Charleston, S.C., in 1870; solicitor sissippi; born in Sumter County, Ala., July 6, 1859; moved of the first judicial circuit 1872-1880; contested as a Repub- to Neshoba County, Miss.; attended the common schools and lican the election of Edmund W. M. Mackey to the Forty- Cooper Institute in Daleville; was graduated from the law fourth Congress, but the House decided that neither was department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in entitled to the seat; subsequently elected to fill the vacancy 1884; was admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced prac- tice in Philadelphia, Neshoba County, Miss.; superintendent caused by the decision of the House and served from Novem- of education for Neshoba County 1887-1889; member of the ber 7, 1876, to March 3, 1877; was not a candidate for State senate 1889-1896; served in the State house of rep- renomination in 1876; moved to Fargo, N.Dak., in 1878; resentatives in 1896 and 1897, when he resigned; pros- procured the official organization of Ransom County in 1882, ecuting attorney for the tenth judicial district in 1897; judge and established his residence in what is now known as of the sixth chancery district from 1897 until his resignation Buttzville, N.Dak.; State’s attorney 1884-1886; member of in 1903; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the State house of representatives 1903-1909; died in Lisbon, the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, Ransom County, N.Dak., July 20, 1913; interment in Oak- 1911); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1910; re- wood Cemetery. sumed the practice of law in Philadelphia, Miss.; died at BUYER, Stephen Earle, a Representative from Indiana; Hot Springs, Ark., June 21, 1912; interment in Town Ceme- born in Rensselaer, Jasper County, Ind., November 26, 1958; tery, Philadelphia, Miss. graduated from North White High School, 1976; B.S., The BYRD, Harry Flood (father of Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., Citadel, Charlestown, S.C., 1980; J.D., Valparaiso University and nephew of Henry De La Warr Flood and Joel West School of Law, Valparaiso, Ind., 1984; lawyer, private prac- Flood), a Senator from Virginia; born in Martinsburg, Berke- tice; United States Army, 1984-1987; United States Army ley County, W.Va., June 10, 1887; moved with his parents Reserve, 1980 to present; Indiana state deputy attorney gen- to Winchester, Va., in 1887; attended the public schools and eral, 1987-1988; legal counsel for the 22nd Theater Army Shenandoah Valley Academy at Winchester, Va.; entered in Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm; elected as the newspaper publishing business in 1903 and became pub- a Republican to the One Hundred Third and to the five lisher of the Winchester (Va.) Star; also engaged extensively succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1993-present); one of the in agricultural pursuits near Berryville, Va., in 1906, spe- managers appointed by the House of Representatives in cializing in growing and storing apples and peaches; presi- 1998 to conduct the impeachment proceedings of President dent of the Valley Turnpike Co. 1908-1918; member, State William Jefferson Clinton. senate1915-1925; State fuel commissioner in 1918; was elect- BYNUM, Jesse Atherton, a Representative from North ed chairman of the Democratic State committee in 1922; Carolina; born in Halifax County, N.C., May 23, 1797; at- Governor of Virginia 1926-1930; Democratic National com- tended Princeton College in 1818 and 1819; studied law; mitteeman 1928-1940; was appointed March 4, 1933, and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Halifax, subsequently elected on November 7, 1933, as a Democrat N.C.; member of the house of commons of North Carolina to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by in 1823, 1824, and 1827-1830; elected as a Jacksonian to the resignation of Claude A. Swanson; reelected in 1934, the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses and as a 1940, 1946, 1952, 1958, and 1964, and served from March Democrat to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1833- 4, 1933, until his resignation November 10, 1965; chairman, March 3, 1841); moved to Alexandria, Rapides Parish, La., Committee on Rules (Seventy-seventh through Seventy- where he engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Alexan- ninth Congresses), Committee on Finance (Eighty-fourth dria, La., September 23, 1868; interment in Rapides Ceme- through Eighty-ninth Congresses), Joint Committee on the tery, Pineville, La. Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures (Seventy- seventh through Eighty-ninth Congresses), Joint Committee BYNUM, William Dallas, a Representative from Indiana; on Internal Revenue Taxation (Eighty-fourth through born near Newberry, Greene County, Ind., June 26, 1846; Eighty-ninth Congresses); died in Berryville, Va., October attended the country schools, and was graduated from the 20, 1966; interment in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, University of Indiana at Bloomington in 1869; studied law; Va. was admitted to the bar in 1872 and commenced practice Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; American National Bi- in Washington, Ind.; served as the first city clerk; city attor- ography; Heinemann, Ronald L. Harry Byrd of Virginia. Charlottesville: ney of Washington 1871-1875; mayor of Washington 1875- University Press of Virginia, 1996; Wilkinson, J. Harvie. Harry Byrd and the Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945-1966. Charlottesville: Univer- 1879; moved from Daviess County to Indianapolis in 1880; sity of Virginia Press, 1968. member of the State house of representatives 1881-1885, and served as speaker in 1885; elected as a Democrat to BYRD, Harry Flood, Jr. (son of Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.), the Forty-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses a Senator from Virginia; born in Winchester, Va., December (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1895); served for some time as 20, 1914; educated at Virginia Military Institute and the whip of the Democratic minority; censured by the House University of Virginia; newspaper editor and fruit grower; of Representatives on May 17, 1890, for the use of unparlia- member of Democratic State central committee 1940-1965; 762 Biographical Directory

during the Second World War, served in the United States Secretary of Commerce Stans to the Chicago Regional Ex- Naval Reserve as a lieutenant commander; member, State port Expansion Council, April 17, 1970; resided in Evanston, senate 1948-1965; appointed on November 12, 1965, as a Ill., where he died September 25, 1974; interment in Holy Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy Sepulcher Cemetery, Worth, Ill. caused by the resignation of his father, Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., and was subsequently elected in a special election on BYRNE, James Aloysius, a Representative from Penn- November 8, 1966, to fill the unexpired term ending January sylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 22, 1906; attended 3, 1971; reelected as an Independent in 1970 and in 1976, the parochial school, St. Joseph’s Preparatory School, public and served from November 12, 1965, to January 2, 1983; high school, and St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia; en- was not a candidate for reelection in 1982; is a resident gaged in business as a mortician 1937-1950; county reg- of Winchester, Va. istrar, Bureau of Vital Statistics, 1934-1939; chief deputy Bibliography: Byrd, Harry F., Jr. ‘‘The Limitations of Detente.’’ In United States marshal 1940-1943, and United States mar- Trends in U.S.-Soviet Military Power, pp. 7-12. Washington: ACU Edu- shal for eastern district of Pennsylvania 1943-1945; senior cation and Research Institute, 1977; Hatch, Alden. The Byrds of Virginia. disbursing officer of Pennsylvania State Treasury 1945-1950; New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969. delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1936; member State house of representatives in 1951 and 1952; BYRD, Robert Carlyle, a Representative and a Senator elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the nine from West Virginia; born in North Wilkesboro, Wilkes Coun- succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1973); ty, N.C., November 20, 1917; attended West Virginia public unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1972 to the Nine- schools; student at Beckley College, Concord College, Morris ty-third Congress; was a resident of Philadelphia, Pa., where Harvey College, and Marshall College, all in West Virginia, he died September 3, 1980; interment in Holy Sepulchre and George Washington University Law School, Washington, Cemetery, Wyndmoor, Pa. D.C.; graduated, American University Law School 1963; re- ceived Bachelor’s degree in political science from Marshall BYRNE, Leslie Larkin, a Representative from Virginia; University 1994; member of the West Virginia house of dele- born in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 27, 1946; attended gates 1947-1950; member of the West Virginia senate 1951- the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; attended 1952, resigning when elected to Congress; elected as a Dem- Mount Vernon College, Mount Vernon, Ohio; chair, Fairfax ocrat to the Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth County Commission on Fair Campaign Practices, Fairfax, Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1959); elected as Va., 1978-1980; business executive; member of the Virginia a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1958 for the state house of delegates, 1985-1992; elected as a Democrat term commencing January 3, 1959; reelected in 1964, 1970, to the One Hundred Third Congress (January 3, 1993-Janu- 1976, 1982, 1988, 1994, and again in 2000 for the term ary 3, 1995); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the ending January 3, 2007; Secretary, Senate Democratic Con- One Hundred Fourth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for ference 1967-1971; Democratic whip 1971-1977; Majority nomination to the United States Senate in 1996; member Leader 1977-1980, 1987-1988; Minority Leader 1981-1986; of the Virginia state senate, 2000 to present. President pro tempore 1989-1995; June 6, 2001-January 3, 2003; chair, Committee on Appropriations (One Hundred BYRNE, William Thomas, a Representative from New First through One Hundred Third Congresses; One Hundred York; born in the town of Florida, Montgomery County, N.Y., Seventh Congress [January 3-20, 2001; June 6, 2001-Janu- March 6, 1876; attended the public schools; was graduated ary 3, 2003]); grandfather of Erik, Darius, and Frederik from Albany (N.Y.) Law School (branch of Union College) Fatemi, Michael (deceased), Mona, and Mary Anne Moore; in 1904; was admitted to the bar the same year and com- great-grandfather of Caroline Byrd Fatemi, Kathryn Somes menced practice in Albany, N.Y.; member of the State senate Fatemi, Anna Cristina Fatemi and Michael Yoo Fatemi, 1923-1936; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and Emma James Clarkson and Hannah Byrd Clarkson. to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from January Bibliography: Byrd, Robert C. The Senate, 1789-1989. 4 vols. Wash- 3, 1937, until his death in Troy, N.Y., January 27, 1952; ington: Government Printing Office, 1989-1994. Vols. 1 and 2, Addresses interment in St. John’s Cemetery, West Albany, Town of on the History of the United States Senate; Vol. 3, Classic Speeches, 1830- Colonie, N.Y. 1993; Vol 4, Historical Statistics, 1789-1992; Byrd, Robert C. The Senate of the Roman Republic: Addresses on the History of Roman Constitu- BYRNES, James Francis, a Representative and a Sen- tionalism. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1995; Byrd, Robert C. ator from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., May Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency. New 2, 1882; attended the public schools; official court reporter York: W.W. Norton, 2004. for the second circuit of South Carolina 1900-1908; editor BYRNE, Emmet Francis, a Representative from Illinois; of the Journal and Review, Aiken, S.C. 1903-1907; studied born in Chicago, Ill., December 6, 1896; educated in the law; admitted to the bar in 1903 and commenced practice public and parochial schools of Chicago and graduated from in Aiken, S.C.; solicitor for the second circuit of South Caro- St. Ignatius Academy; attended Loyola University in 1916; lina 1908-1910; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second veteran of the First World War; graduated from De Paul Congress, reelected to the six succeeding Congresses (March University Law School, Chicago, Ill., in 1920; was admitted 4, 1911-March 3, 1925); was not a candidate for renomina- to the bar in 1919 and commenced the practice of law in tion in 1924, but was an unsuccessful candidate for United Chicago, Ill.; assistant corporation counsel for city of Chicago States Senator; resumed the practice of law in Spartanburg, from June 1921 to June 1923; assistant State’s attorney S.C.; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate for Cook County, Ill., from June 1, 1923, to December 1, on November 4, 1930; reelected in 1936 and served from 1928; unsuccessful candidate for election as judge of the March 4, 1931, until his resignation on July 8, 1941, having municipal court of Chicago in 1934 and again in 1936; hear- been appointed to the Supreme Court; chairman, Committee ing officer for Illinois Commerce Commission in 1947 and to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Seventy-third 1948 and again in 1955 and 1956; elected as a Republican through Seventy-seventh Congresses); Associate Justice of to the Eighty-fifth Congress (January 3, 1957-January 3, the United States Supreme Court from July 1941 until his 1959); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the resignation on October 3, 1942, to head the wartime Office Eighty-sixth Congress; resumed law practice; appointed by of Economic Stabilization until May 1943; director of the Biographies 763

Office of War Mobilization, May 1943 until his resignation BYRNS, Samuel, a Representative from Missouri; born in April 1945; Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President on a farm in Jefferson County, Mo., March 4, 1848; studied Harry Truman 1945-1947; resumed the practice of law in law; was admitted to the bar in 1872 and commenced prac- Washington, D.C.; Governor of South Carolina 1951-1955; tice in Hillsboro, Mo.; collector of revenue for Jefferson retired and resided in Columbia, S.C., where he died April County in 1872; member of the State house of representa- 9, 1972; interment in Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery. tives in 1876 and 1877; served in the State senate in 1878; Bibliography: American National Biography; Byrnes, James Francis. All member of the Democratic State central committee 1886- in One Lifetime. New York: Harper, 1958; Robertson, David. Sly and Able: 1888; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress A Political Biography of James F. Byrnes. New York: W.W. Norton Co., (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); was an unsuccessful can- 1994. didate for renomination in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress; BYRNES, John William, a Representative from Wis- resumed the practice of his chosen profession in De Soto, consin; born in Green Bay, Brown County Wis., June 12, Jefferson County, Mo., where he died on July 9, 1914; inter- 1913; attended the public and parochial schools; was grad- ment in Hillsboro Cemetery, Hillsboro, Mo. uated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1936 BYRON, Beverly Barton Butcher (wife Goodloe Edgar and from the law school of the same university in 1938; Byron and daughter-in-law of William Devereux Byron and was admitted to the bar in 1938 and commenced practice Katharine Edgar Byron), a Representative from Maryland; in Green Bay, Wis.; served as a special deputy commissioner born Beverly Barton Butcher in Baltimore, Md., July 27, of banking for the State of Wisconsin from 1938 until his 1932; graduated from National Cathedral School for Girls, resignation in 1940 to assume his duties as State senator; Washington, D.C., 1950; attended Hood College, Frederick, member of the State senate 1940-1944, serving as majority Md., 1961-1962; treasurer, Maryland Young Democrats, floor leader in 1943; elected as a Republican to the Seventy- 1962 and 1965; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-sixth ninth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-Janu- 3, 1945-January 3, 1973); was not a candidate for reelection ary 3, 1993); unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; returned to the prac- One Hundred Third Congress in 1992; appointed to the Base tice of law in Washington, D.C.; was a resident of Arlington, Closure and Realignment Commission, 1993; is a resident Va., until his death in Marshfield, Wis., on January 12, of Frederick, Md. 1985. BYRON, Goodloe Edgar (husband of Beverly Barton BYRNS, Joseph Wellington (father of Joseph Wellington Butcher Byron, son of Katharine Edgar Byron and William Byrns, Jr.), a Representative from Tennessee; born near Devereux Byron, and great grandson of Louis Emery Cedar Hill, Robertson County, Tenn., July 20, 1869; at- McComas), a Representative from Maryland; born in Wil- tended the common schools; was graduated from Nashville liamsport, Washington County, Md., June 22, 1929; attended High School in 1887 and from the law department of Van- the Williamsport public schools and St. Albans School of derbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., in 1890; was admitted to the bar in 1890 and commenced the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; B.A., University of Virginia at Charlottes- Nashville; member of the State house of representatives, ville, 1951; J.D., George Washington University, Wash- 1895-1901; member of the State senate in 1901-1903; unsuc- ington, D.C., 1953; commissioned first lieutenant, United cessful candidate for district attorney general of Davidson States Army, with judge advocate general’s office, 1954, County in 1902; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first serving as legal officer with Third Armored Division in Ger- and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses and served from many; discharged with rank of captain, 1957; subsequently March 4, 1909, until his death; chairman, Committee on joined Maryland National Guard, serving as aide-de-camp Appropriations (Seventy-second Congress); majority leader to Maj. Gen. William Purnell, commander, Twenty-ninth In- (Seventy-third Congress), Speaker of the House of Rep- fantry Division; admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1953 and resentatives (Seventy-fourth Congress); chairman of the commenced practice in Frederick, 1958; Frederick County Democratic National Congressional Campaign Committee attorney, 1959-1961; chairman, Maryland State Planning 1928-1930; was a nominee for reelection to the Seventy- and Zoning Law Study commission, 1966-1970; member, fifth Congress at the time of his death; died in Washington, Maryland house of delegates, 1963-1967; member, Maryland D.C., on June 4, 1936; funeral services were held in the senate, 1967-1971; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety- Hall of the House of Representatives; interment in Mount second and to the three succeeding Congresses; served from Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn. January 3, 1971, until his death October 11, 1978, in Ha- Bibliography: Irish, Ann B. Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee: A Political gerstown, Md.; was a successful candidate for renomination Biography. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. to the Ninety-sixth Congress; interment in Antietam Na- tional Cemetery, Sharpsburg, Md. BYRNS, Joseph Wellington, Jr. (son of Joseph Wel- lington Byrns), a Representative from Tennessee; born in BYRON, Katharine Edgar (wife of William Devereux Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., August 15, 1903; at- Byron, mother of Goodloe Edgar Byron, and granddaughter tended the public schools; was graduated from Emerson In- of Louis Emory McComas), a Representative from Maryland; stitute at Washington, D.C., in 1922 and from the law de- born in Detroit, Mich., October 25, 1903; attended the public partment of Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tenn., in schools, Westover School, Middlebury, Conn., and Holton 1928; was admitted to the bar in 1928 and commenced prac- Arms School, Washington, D.C.; moved to Williamsport, Md., tice in Nashville; member of the Air Corps Reserve 1930- in 1922; chairman of Red Cross flood disaster committee 1938, with the rank of captain; elected as a Democrat to of Williamsport in 1936; town commissioner of Williamsport the Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1938-1940; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh 1941); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Congress, by special election, May 27, 1941, to fill the va- Seventy-seventh Congress; resumed the practice of law; cancy caused by the death of her husband, William D. served in the United States Army from June 23, 1942, to Byron, and served from May 27, 1941, to January 3, 1943; August 17, 1945, with two and one-half years overseas in was not a candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy- the European Theater of Operations; retired; resided in Day- eighth Congress; retired and resided in Washington, D.C., tona Beach, Fla., where he died March 8, 1973; interment where she died December 28, 1976; interment in Riverview in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn. 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BYRON, William Devereux (husband of Katharine presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Twenty-ninth Edgar Byron and father of Goodloe Edgar Byron), a Rep- Congress and served from October 6, 1845, to January 24, resentative from Maryland; born in Danville, Pittsylvania 1846, when he was succeeded by William H. Brockenbrough, County, Va., May 15, 1895; moved to Williamsport, Wash- who contested the election; elected as a Whig to the Thir- ington County, Md. with his parents in 1899; attended the tieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, public schools, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., and 1847-March 3, 1853); chairman, Committee on Expenditures Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y.; during the First World War on Public Buildings (Thirtieth-Congress); unsuccessful can- enlisted as a private in the Aviation Corps; commissioned didate in 1852 for reelection to the Thirty-third Congress; a first lieutenant, and was assigned as an instructor in resumed the practice of law in Tallahassee; moved to St. flying and in aerial gunnery; engaged in the leather manu- Louis, Mo., in 1859; during the Civil War served in the facturing business in 1919; served as mayor of Williamsport Confederate Army with rank of lieutenant colonel; engaged 1926-1930; member of the State senate 1930-1934; member in the practice of law in New York City 1868-1872, and of the Maryland Roads commission in 1934 and 1935; elected subsequently in St. Louis, Mo.; member of the State senate as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh of Missouri 1878-1882; died in St. Louis, Mo., February 28, Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his death 1896; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery. in an airplane crash at Jonesboro, near Atlanta, Ga., Feb- ruary 27, 1941; interment in Riverview Cemetery, Williams- CABELL, George Craighead, a Representative from port, Md. Virginia; born in Danville, Pittsylvania County, Va., January 25, 1836; attended the Danville Academy, and the law school of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1857; was C admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Danville in 1858; edited the Republican and later the Democratic CABANISS, Thomas Banks (cousin of Thomas Chipman Appeal in Danville; elected Commonwealth attorney for McRae), a Representative from Georgia; born in Forsyth, Danville in September 1858, and served until April 23, 1861, Monroe County, Ga., August 31, 1835; attended private when he volunteered as a private in the Confederate Army; schools and Penfield College; was graduated from the Uni- commissioned major in June 1861 and was assigned to the versity of Georgia at Athens in 1853; studied law; was ad- Eighteenth Regiment, Virginia Infantry; promoted to the mitted to the bar in 1861; entered the Confederate Army rank of colonel and served until the close of the Civil War; April 1, 1861, and served throughout the Civil War; returned resumed the practice of his profession; elected as a Democrat to Forsyth, Ga., and commenced the practice of law; member to the Forty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses of the State house of representatives 1865-1867; appointed (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1887); chairman, Committee on assistant secretary of the State senate in 1870 and secretary Railways and Canals (Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Con- in 1873; resigned to become solicitor general of the Flint gresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886 to circuit, which office he held until 1877; served in the State the Fiftieth Congress; resumed the practice of law in senate 1878-1880 and 1884-1886; elected as a Democrat to Danville, Va.; died in Baltimore, Md., June 23, 1906; inter- the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); un- ment in Green Hill Cemetery, Danville, Va. successful candidate for renomination in 1894; appointed a CABELL, Samuel Jordan, a Representative from Vir- member of the Dawes Commission to adjust affairs in the ginia; born in Albemarle (now Nelson) County, Va., Decem- Indian Territory; mayor of Forsyth, Ga., in 1910; judge of ber 15, 1756; attended the College of William and Mary, the city court in 1913 and 1914; died in Forsyth, Ga., August Williamsburg, Va.; left school to enter the Revolutionary 14, 1915; interment in Oakland Cemetery. Army; appointed captain of Amherst County Volunteers in CABELL, Earle, a Representative from Texas; born on 1776; assigned to the Sixth Virginia Regiment; promoted a farm, south of Trinity River in Dallas County, Tex., Octo- to the rank of major for gallantry at Saratoga in 1777; ber 27, 1906; graduated from North Dallas High School in served in Washington’s army in 1778 and 1779 and attained 1925; attended Texas A. & M. and Southern Methodist Uni- the rank of lieutenant colonel; was taken prisoner by the versity; in 1932 with two brothers organized Cabell’s, Inc. British May 12, 1780, at the capture of Charleston; after (dairies and convenience stores) and became president and the war returned to Virginia and engaged in planting; mem- chairman of the board; engaged in banking and investments; ber of the State house of delegates 1785-1792; member of elected mayor of Dallas May 1961 and reelected in 1963, ratification convention in 1788; elected as a Republican to serving until his resignation February 3, 1964, to be a can- the Fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March didate for Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty- 4, 1795-March 3, 1803); was not a candidate for reelection ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, in 1802; died on his estate ‘‘Soldiers’ Joy,’’ near New Market 1965-January 3, 1973); unsuccessful candidate for reelection (now Norwood), Nelson County, Va., August 4, 1818; inter- in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; retired and returned ment in the family burying ground on his farm near Nor- to Dallas where he died September 24, 1975; interment in wood, Va. Restland Memorial Park. CABLE, Benjamin Taylor, a Representative from Illi- CABELL, Edward Carrington, a Representative from nois; born in Georgetown, Scott County, Ky., August 11, Florida; born in Richmond, Va., February 5, 1816; attended 1853; moved with his parents to Rock Island, Ill., in Sep- Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), tember 1856; attended the public schools and Racine College, Lexington, Va., in 1832 and 1833 and Reynolds’ Classical Racine, Wis.; was graduated from the University of Michigan Academy in 1833 and 1834; was graduated from the Univer- at Ann Arbor in 1876; engaged in agricultural pursuits and sity of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1836; moved to Florida also became interested in various manufacturing enter- in 1837 and engaged in agricultural pursuits near Tallahas- prises; chairman of the western branch of the Democratic see; delegate to the Territorial convention to form a State National Committee in 1892; chairman of the Democratic constitution in 1838; returned to Virginia; studied law; was executive committee in 1902; delegate to the Democratic admitted to the bar in 1840; returned to Tallahassee, Fla.; National Convention in 1904; elected as a Democrat to the upon the admission of Florida as a State into the Union Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); de-